uprear

Example Sentences

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S. Nay, my mammy and our Ursel did uprear the beds.

From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von

The evening closes in heavy and lowering, and Cam Fell and Widdale Fell uprear their huge forms on the right and left in sullen gloom, and appear the more mountainous.

From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter

Here waves uprear themselves, their tops blown back By the gay, sunny wind, which whips the blue And breaks it into gleams and sparks of light.

From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass by Lowell, Amy

The distant mountains, that uprear  Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear  As we to higher levels rise.

From Trail Tales by Gillilan, James David

It is now the twelfth hour of the night, birds of darkness are on the wing, the spectres uprear, the dead walk, the living dream.

From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John