upraise

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Mrs. Fane looked with her kind round eyes into the worn face that tried to upraise itself to greet her.

From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss

Millions of dollars of gold have been extracted from its bed, and millions more await the tunnel, upraise, and drift of the adventurous miner.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello

Down with the rosemary and bays, Down with the mistletoe; Instead of holly, now upraise The greener box for show.

From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)

Also ye of the bow and the buskin, praised be your peer,5 Now, henceforth and forever—O latest to whom I upraise Hand and heart and voice!

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

Equally honourable, equally dear, with that mother of His flesh whom you would fain upraise above all other women.

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah