uprear

Example Sentences

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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 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)

Ay, but when our trust Totters, and faith is shattered to the base, Grand words will not uprear it.

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar

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

Nor a spot More fit to stir the poet's phantasy; Grey Old Man of the Mountain, awfully There, from thy wreath of clouds thou dost uprear Those features grand,—the same eternally!

From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Afton, Effie