uprear
Example Sentences
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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)
Here waves uprear themselves, their tops blown back By the gay, sunny wind, which whips the blue And breaks it into gleams and sparks of light.
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass by Lowell, Amy
The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.
From Trail Tales by Gillilan, James David
Would that thegn and coerl were filled with thy spirit, and the Dane would no longer uprear his raven standard in the land.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster
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
