upheave

Example Sentences

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

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

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

These evils are sot too firm on American soil, it will take a greater power than Miss Meechim’s tracts to upheave ’em.

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta

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

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