uprear

Example Sentences

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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

Beyond the lake, rising in mid-air like a great gray wall, are the sheer precipices of Monument Mountain, and in the hazy distance the loftier Taconics uprear their grand Dome in the illimitable blue.

From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

Did Something uprear Itself out there in the black fog?

From The Thing from the Lake by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

It is odd how individuality will uprear itself before its own consciousness, in the most adverse circumstances.

From The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

The Whisperer, upon the ruins of the old creeds, would try to uprear a new creed—his own.

From The Orchard of Tears by Rohmer, Sax