uprisen

Example Sentences

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When he wrote it was a sentence of singular construction, truly indicative of how vague awe and dread had uprisen to take large standing beside simple humane solicitude.

From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence

For lo, the world's great Shepherd now is born A blessed babe, an infant full of power: After long night uprisen is the morn, Renowning Bethl'em in the Saviour.

From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)

O love, stand beside me; the sun is uprisen    On the first day of London; and shame hath been here.

From The Pilgrims of Hope by Morris, William

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

He longed for the arrival of his father—for the strong, calm counsel of the one man in England fitted to cope with the Hell Thing which had uprisen in their midst.

From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Rohmer, Sax