uprear
Example Sentences
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Here falls a cold rill drop by drop, and green grass-blades uprear Their heads, and fallen leaves are thick, and locusts prattle here.
From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus
Ay, but when our trust Totters, and faith is shattered to the base, Grand words will not uprear it.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
"The Whisperer ... would try to uprear a new creed—his own."
From The Orchard of Tears by Rohmer, Sax
Yet might she love me to uprear her state: I, but perhaps she loves some nobler mate.
From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover
Below that came the rapids in their first fury, with scattered cellars into which the flood swept to uprear itself in a second into pyramids of force and foam.
From The Rapids by Sullivan, Alan
