uprear
Example Sentences
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The mountains bear easily the weight of forests they uprear, and at the last and highest, no tree ascends above the snow-line of eternal thought.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore
Did Something uprear Itself out there in the black fog?
From The Thing from the Lake by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)
The mighty arms you raise appear Like trunks which elephants uprear, And as you move this mountain-king543 Is glorious with the light you bring.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed, There but wild oats and barren darnel spring; For tender violet and narcissus bright Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
From The Bucolics and Eclogues by Virgil
Yet might she love me to uprear her state: I, but perhaps she loves some nobler mate.
From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover
