uprisen

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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

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

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

It is scarcely a country at all—only a scrap of coral reef uprisen at the foot of Mexico—Yucatan.

From The Romance of the Reaper by Casson, Herbert Newton

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