upheaved

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Suddenly Upheaved the land, upheaved the awful sea; The earth was riven; toppling forests bent, To sink and disappear in that vast rent!

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley

"Upheaved from the deep," swift, tremendous, Leviathan sports on the far-foaming wave.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892 by Various

When all thy slanderous ghouls, In the bosom of sheol, Forgotten lie, Thy monumental name shall live, And suns thy royal brow shall gild, Upheaved to heaven high, O'ertopping thrones.

From Mob Rule in New Orleans Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics by Wells-Barnett, Ida B.

Upheaved like an ocean My senses toss with strange emotion!

From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Brooks, Charles Timothy

Then in a mood, it seemed more fanciful, He bent again and raked, and to my sight Upheaved and held the remnant of a skull— Gorilla's or a man's, I could not guess.

From Toward the Gulf by Masters, Edgar Lee