uprear
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Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed, There but wild oats and barren darnel spring; For tender violet and narcissus bright Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
From The Bucolics and Eclogues by Virgil
The evening closes in heavy and lowering, and Cam Fell and Widdale Fell uprear their huge forms on the right and left in sullen gloom, and appear the more mountainous.
From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter
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)
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
Ye others round him straight the turf uprear; As for our sires was done of yore, An oblong square delve ye once more.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno
