upbear

Example Sentences

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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 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

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

Huge Atlas was Electra's sire, the same Whose shoulders still the starry skies upbear.

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

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