uprear

Example Sentences

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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)

All hail, ye mountains that uprear     Your lordly heights magnificent!

From Canada, My Land and Other Compositions in Verse by MacKeracher, W. M.

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

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

Yet might she love me to uprear her state: I, but perhaps she loves some nobler mate.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover