uprear
Example Sentences
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He hails The crews, and biddeth them the masts uprear, And stretch the sheets.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
He seemed to shrink in stature, standing before the other man's uprear of imperious will.
From The Debtor A Novel by William Dodge Stevens
Ay, but when our trust Totters, and faith is shattered to the base, Grand words will not uprear it.
From Reviews by Oscar Wilde
Yet might she love me to uprear her state: I, but perhaps she loves some nobler mate.
From John Lyly by John Dover Wilson
Did Something uprear Itself out there in the black fog?
From The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
