upraise

Example Sentences

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He struck the root of the tree with his tunnel and made an upraise to the inside of the trunk.

From Bears I Have Met—and Others by Kelly, Allen

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

From The Spirit of Sweetwater by Garland, Hamlin

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

The floor and upraise of this recess is plastered with adobe, which in several places is smooth and well made.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

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 Howard, J. J.