upheave

Example Sentences

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Three days they ride that country, and many a city leave, But the fourth dawn mighty mountains by the inner sea upheave.

From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by Morris, William

It is like the volcanic fires that flame in the depths of the earth; it will yet upheave the ocean and the land, and flame up to heaven.

From A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by Cooke, John Esten

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

I never did, and many years went by; Then, near a Southern port, one Christmas Eve, I watched a gale go roaring through the sky, Making the cauldrons of the clouds upheave.

From Georgian Poetry 1913-15 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

Taras also felt his soul upheave, but he conquered his wrath, knowing the people.

From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil