uprisen

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His son, Lord Lincoln, had heard Gladstone’s speech against the Reform Bill delivered in the Oxford Union, and had written home that “a man had uprisen in Israel.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

He had heard the remarkable speech of his friend, Mr. Gladstone, in the Oxford Union, against the Reform Bill, and had written home regarding him, that "a man had uprisen in Israel."

From The Grand Old Man by Cook, Richard B. (Richard Briscoe)

The whole town had uprisen as one man and demanded a dress-suit.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

Now they have uprisen, and, asseverating that classical education is a pricked bubble, ask boldly for expensive apparatus and a larger tract of space in the time-table.

From The Lighter Side of School Life by Hay, Ian

From the north had uprisen a column of light, of about the apparent breadth of the Milky Way, but far more brilliant, and defined clearly at the edges.

From Bressant by Hawthorne, Julian