upheave

Example Sentences

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Brown rocks, left bare by the receding tide, upheave their slippery backs, heavily festooned with seaweed, and the broad level sands lie wet and glistening in the sun.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

Each body of water has its own currents, but when the hurricane is abroad they mysteriously intermingle, and from the ocean to the remotest mountain lake the same tremor will upheave them all.

From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Houghton, Louise Seymour

The earth does not upheave itself from beneath the sea and add new land to that already above water in response to our need for it.

From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by Russell, George William

The latter was mightily amused by the adventure, and continued for a considerable time afterwards to upheave his huge shoulders with suppressed laughter.

From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

The Archimedian lever found a resting-place in his brain, and sundry of his thoughts seem not inapt to upheave the world.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various