uprear
Example Sentences
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He seemed to shrink in stature, standing before the other man's uprear of imperious will.
From The Debtor A Novel by Stevens, William Dodge
He hails The crews, and biddeth them the masts uprear, And stretch the sheets.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
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
Fire-eyed Valour, guard the land; Here uprear thy fearless crest; Princess, Kate, Alice, &c.
From The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage by Moses, Montrose Jonas
Yet might she love me to uprear her state: I, but perhaps she loves some nobler mate.
From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover
