upraise

My tunnel went into the hill on a slight upraise, and I could do the work alone.

From The Spirit of Sweetwater by Hamlin Garland

Naturally I have let it fall to upraise you, and now I have leave it there.”

From A Woman's Will by I. H. (Isaac Henry) Caliga

Thrice Neptune ventur'd to upraise his arms Grim frowning,—thrice the flames too fierce he found, And shrunk beneath the waters.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

They must also upraise the flag of the oneness of the world of humanity in the island of Madagascar.

From Tablets of the Divine Plan by `Abdu'l-Bahá

My voice I will upraise To thank the world for every bird that sings.

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay

Peter Stock was now holding up the Frenchman's arm, as a referee upraises the whip of a winning fighter.

From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort

The Doctor knows that Shorty is not named because of brevity in speech, and upraises a white hand.

From From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days by Charles King

The languid rose her head upraises, and listens to the nightingale, while his wild and thrilling praises from his trembling bosom gush: the languid rose her head upraises, and listens with a blush.

From Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

It is Lilian: she is trembling visibly, and the face she upraises to his is pale—nay, gray—with dread suspense.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)

The king, for whom the songs awake, As fair return the bard to make— A golden chain upraises.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various

So, here, Washington seems to have just stepped forward and, his head slightly upraised and with eyes fixed on something in the distance, readies himself to speak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

“He was a fixture of the neighborhood. He just loved Capitol Hill and the Central District area,” Taylor said of Ewell, who would stand on street corners with upraised arms.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

When her character, Aurora Fane, joins a throng of socialites surveying the nearly completed Met, the camera lingers on her face, upraised in awe.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

In Game 3 of the 1932 series at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, the Yankees’ Babe Ruth gestured with an upraised finger toward the Cubs pitcher, Charlie Root, and walloped his next pitch for a home run.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2022

In front of the altar she bowed deeply with her head tucked between her upraised arms, and then placed her fingertips on the Crocodile Stone.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

It's an anti-colonialism commentary whose heroes validate the brown people's struggles around the world while distinctly upraising Indian pride.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2022

That is the great solving and upraising word; not limited to mere parentage, but the law of woman-life.

From Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887 by Various

In these groups, from the languid resuscitation and upraising of the pardoned, to the despair of the condemned, every variety of expression, anxiety, anguish, rage, and despair, is powerfully delineated.

From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare

Through the upraising of Thy hand to the heaven of My grace, the hands of all created things shall be lifted up to their Lord, the Mighty, the Powerful, the Gracious.

From The Summons of the Lord of Hosts by Bahá'u'lláh

Then all the ministers of state, upraising him, exhort him, as was right, to calm himself.

From Sacred Books of the East by Various