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He would be lifted on the hands of men, their plaudits would upbear his soul, and he would at last triumph, sealed by the sanction of his kind.

From The Prisoner by Alice Brown

If they sometimes subdue, they must finally upbear me, for I seek the universal,—and that must be the best.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller

The white bones, which my body's wreck outlast, Girdled in flowing black they will upbear, Sprinkle with rare, old wine, and gently cast In bath of snowy milk, with pious care.

From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Theodore C. Williams

Up through the waves the Dolphins bound, A hundred bended backs are found, Each one more eager than the rest To upbear the sweet Player on Ocean's breast.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw

Each hand an Alpine spear 766 Waves, and an oblong shield their stalwart arms upbear.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

At night, the Corso was illuminated, and many thousands passed through it in a torch-bearing procession, on their way to the Quirinal, to thank the Pope, upbearing a banner on which the edict was printed.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller

She spread her arms wide, in indication of the vastness of the upbearing body whereon she sat.

From Paul Faber, Surgeon by George MacDonald

The heather was pulled, and set together upright as it grew, only much closer, so that the tops made a dense surface, and the many stalks, each weak, a strong upbearing whole.

From Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

There the swift relief was like an upbearing into another air, charged with more intimate222 largess for life.

From Christmas A Story by Leon V. (Leon Victor) Solon

He seemed their only hope—the Atlas upbearing all the fates of Athens.

From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis

When other actors faltered -and every member of the excellent cast, except Boris Karloff as the judge, was jittered off top form on opening night -Julie upbore them.

From Time Magazine Archive

One small foot upbore her weight, the other unconsciously, but most daintily, poised on a toe.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller

The sea upbore me, flood of the tide, on Finnish land, the welling waters.

From Beowulf by Francis Barton Gummere

And when war was red Around us, friends upbore the gentle dead Home, and dear women's hands about them wound White shrouds, and here they sleep in the old ground Belovèd.

From The Trojan Women of Euripedes by Euripedes

Dim and beautiful indeed was the hope that upbore the grave and beautiful Theban maiden; and we shall see her resolution equaled, though hardly surpassed, by Christian Antigones of equal love and surer faith.

From A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Mary Yonge

The seal of Eton College, dated 1474, attests to the Assumption; in that seal Mary is shown upborne by six angels with the arms of Eton under her feet.

From Time Magazine Archive

For this light, that had been so gallantly upborne, so well honored, of old, had been put out in the more effeminate times, and fallen to utter discredit in these new "dark ages."

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

She felt herself upborne on waves of religious emotion towards those shining stars.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

The Vicarage sits immediately below the pulpit, so that the preacher's eloquence may soar on stronger pinions, upborne by the sight of the nine ugly faces to whom he has given the light of day.

From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton

We pursue them with the stern courage of men upborne by the strength of a moral conviction.

From Some of My War Stories A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal legion by Allen Ripley Foote