upheave

Example Sentences

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You will find the smaller communities living along in unison with the seasons, having neither extreme poverty nor wealth—none of the violent plagues of upheave and unrest which afflict our great populations.

From My Life and Work by Ford, Henry

One would have it stop, take heed, upheave....

From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous

Father, we confess, And were our arms unbound, we would upheave Our sinful hands with sorrowing hearts to heaven.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

The whole ocean about the island seemed to upheave.

From Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

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 Wentz, W. Y. Evans