upraise

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Bahá’u’lláh passed forty years of His life in prison and exile in order that He might upraise the banner of the oneness of the world of men.

From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá

It bloom'd in simplicity's meekest of form, The spoil of the winds and the gust of the storm; Like the offspring of want on a pitiless shore, No hand to upraise it—no heart to deplore!

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832 by Various

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

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.

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.