upraise

Example Sentences

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Then Natasha's voice soared up clear and strong above the organ notes, singing the first line of the old well-known chant— The strain upraise of joy and praise.

From The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror by Griffith, George Chetwynd

I have spent fifty years of my life trying to upraise my class.

From From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography by George Edwards M.P. O.B.E.

He was apt to present his insight in a sort of parable or allegory, to upraise it before the eyes of mankind on the mast or flagpole of some vehement exaggeration.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan

But only when thine honour shall demand, Or injured right, upraise thy martial hand.

From The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Skeats, Wilfred S.

Striving ever to upraise the veil that hides man from himself, in the effort I have been misapprehended, my motives impugned, and my reward has been poverty, slander, disgrace.

From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Randolph, Paschal Beverly