upbear
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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
Our wings are fancies, incense-borne, That feather-light upbear.
From Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry by Various
What shall I say of those fair buildings, which ’tis so wonderful to see the ground among those fens upbear?’
From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley
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
Strong-winged this Eagle, either wafter ready To buoy and to upbear that body great.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 13, 1890 by Various
Then, as a river of fire, they streamed slowly through the Corso, on their way to the Quirinal to thank the Pope, upbearing a banner on which the edict was printed.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
The lions upbearing the throne in the hall of audience were of gold.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
He seemed their only hope—the Atlas upbearing all the fates of Athens.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
Mr. Purdy once saw, upon a single great mountain-side, ten thousand of these wonderful plants, upbearing their beautiful, pure lilies—a sight outrivaling the poet's vision of the golden daffodils.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
From before it one might gaze upon league upon league of sullen sea, stretching to where, far in the dim distance, lay the curve of the horizon upbearing the gray dome of the sky.
From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne
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
Splinter'd are the columns that upbore The leafy palace, green for aye: The shivered branches whirr and sigh, Yawn the huge trunks with mighty groan, The roots, upriven, creak and moan!
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke
In late June its naked shelves and battlements upbore great snow-fields, and its huge rifts or passes—the Gil-i-Shah, nearly 11,700 feet in altitude, and the Pambakal, 11,400—were full of snow.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
They were chilled, they were sleepy, they were utterly exhausted; but they kept their eyes fixed on the perplexing, resplendent object that upbore them.
From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
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
With sacred motion swells her conscious breast; Nor are the poles upborne by airs more blest.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
Afar above a flock of rooks soared, winding round and round a geometrical staircase in the air, with outstretched wings like leaves upborne and slowly rotating edge first.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies
Perhaps a purer time is near, when, upborne by a sense of the dignity of romance and the sacredness of life, man will refrain from laying rough hands on his mute brothers.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
By thee upborne, his name ascends the skies.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
