upbear

Example Sentences

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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 Kingsley, Charles

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 Fuller, Arthur B.

How pleasant is the course along a new river, the sight of new shores; like a life, would but life flow as fast, and upbear us with as full a stream.

From Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Fuller, Margaret

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

No awning was spread over the square, this evening, and every eye beheld the ascent of the resurrected saints, a wondrous cloud seeming to upbear them upon its billowy whiteness.

From The Mark of the Beast by Watson, Sidney