upbear

Example Sentences

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Lord Falworth had the grim strength of manhood's hard sense to upbear him in sending his son into the world, but the poor lady mother had nothing of that to uphold her.

From Men of Iron by Pyle, Howard

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

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 Williams, Theodore C.

Gila, in her most imperial mood, wearing a bewildering imported frock whose simple intricacies and daring contrasts were well calculated to upbear a determined spirit in a supreme combat, awaited his coming impatiently.

From The Witness by Lutz, Grace Livingston Hill