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

All her life she had been servile—servile with the sudden rare tremendous insurrections that upheave certain natures brought up in servility, swift tempests more devastating than the steady fighting of systematic rebels.

From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von

Every day of my life I will upheave my soul from its inmost fastenings, and not suffer a blur to settle upon it.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold

It is I who must find this treasure, this fulcrum to the lever which is going to upheave France.

From A Splendid Hazard by MacGrath, Harold

Others will upheave the blacksmith's hammer, or drive the plane over the carpenter's bench, or take the lapstone and the awl, and learn the trade of shoe-making.

From True Stories of History and Biography by Hawthorne, Nathaniel