upraised

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Upraised glowing rectangles of light winked out in response.

From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2018

And King Amfortas, with a brightening face, Upraised the Holy Grail, and gently waved Its glory to all sides.

From Parsifal A Mystical Drama By Richard Wagner Retold In The Spirit Of The Bayreuth Interpretation by Huckel, Oliver

There was no trace Of ought on that illumined face, Upraised beneath the rifted stone, But of one spirit all her own; She, she herself and only she, Shone through her body visibly.”

From Per Amica Silentia Lunae by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

What awful lyre of marvellous power and range Upraised this Ilion—wrought this dazzling change?

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

He spoke: the rover of the night Upraised them with terrific might, Till, to his lofty shoulders swung, Like children to his neck they clung.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)