uprear
Example Sentences
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Ay, but when our trust Totters, and faith is shattered to the base, Grand words will not uprear it.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
All hail, ye mountains that uprear Your lordly heights magnificent!
From Canada, My Land and Other Compositions in Verse by MacKeracher, W. M.
But to uprear the stones of that great circle would be beyond all our art, and much more would it be impossible to-day, to transport them from their distant quarries across the rugged mountains.
From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright
Five towns their anvils for the war uprear, Crustumium, Tibur, glorying in her might, 748 Ardea, Atina strong, Antemnæ's tower-girt height.
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
