upheave

From the soil of slavery itself have sprung forth some of the most brilliant productions, whose logical levers will ultimately upheave and overthrow the system.

From Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself by Henry Bibb

Then during the night they upheave their backs to relieve themselves of the pressure, and thus shake the walling to a fall.”’

From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans Wentz

"Yes; they'll have the all-firedest upheave there, before long, that ever tore a hole in the bottom of the sea."

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

In the realm of shades, on a throne of gold, By the side of her royal spouse, behold Fair Proserpine, With gloomy mien, While deep sighs upheave her bosom.

From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

The frozen crust was seen to upheave; and, the next moment, the head of the fox, and afterwards his whole body, appeared above the surface.

From The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North by William Harvey

“If I had known, I’d have had a heart attack,” he said also, a reference to a point when things went especially upheaved.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022

The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown upheaved many things in the U.S., including the career of DeRay Mckesson, who quit his job as an educator to become a full-time activist.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2018

Her well-to-do lifestyle is upheaved by news of her husband leaving her for another woman.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2017

He traces the origin of petroleum to volcanic disturbances which in early geological times upheaved the water and land surface of the earth and killed immense quantities of fish.

From Time Magazine Archive

We seem to be living through the biologic revolution, so far anyway, without being upheaved or even much disturbed by it.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

But as other states have led the way in upheaving their systems, Washington has been slow to follow suit.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2022

The first time I came to Hammars, I was barely a year old and knew nothing about the great and upheaving love that had brought me there.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018

Once more the hundreds of centuries of erosion came, to be followed by the upheaving of the newer mountains of the Fourth or Quaternary Age.

From The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

See the upheaving throes of the volcano that is rocking us in the consuming cradle of civil discord!

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson

The nervousness which resulted from hard work and a long struggle for existence had not only given him palsy, but had left him with an upheaving diaphragm.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

The fire, communicating with a powder magazine, produced an explosion which uphove the buildings like an earthquake, and prostrated more than a third of a mile of the city walls.

From The Empire of Russia by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Vast showers of splinters of ice fell as if from the sky, and rained like arrows through the smoke, but if there were any great blocks uphove they did not touch the ship.

From The Frozen Pirate by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell

Then with the sobbing grief he strove, For he saw his name thereon; And the heart within his breast uphove As the pen’s tale now he won.

From Poems By the Way by William Morris

"An island uphove by an earthquake," said I. "Great thunder!" he cried.

From Stories by English Authors: the Sea by Various

Then with the sobbing grief he strove, For he saw his name thereon; And the heart within his breast uphove As the pen's tale now he won.

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris