uprear

Example Sentences

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In cloudy height surrounding me, uprear The Rocky Mountains their uncounted heads.

From The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Skeats, Wilfred S.

The bluffs uprear and grimly peer far over Dawson town; They see its lights a blaze o' nights and harshly they look down; They mock the plan and plot of man with grim, ironic frown.

From Ballads of a Cheechako by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

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

In great masses they uprear their heads, peeping curiously in at the windows, trailing lovingly round the porches, nestling under the eaves, drooping coquettishly at the angles.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)

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

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