bear aloft

Example Sentences

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But armoured fleets bear aloft on their decks a rampart of towers, so that fighting may like place even at sea as from the walls of a fortress.

From Scientific American • Feb. 4, 2013

Thou seest the Father; Thy sad sighs gather, And bear aloft Thy sorrow and His pain!

From Faust by Taylor, Bayard

Mr. Hill's wings do bear aloft and sustain: if not always, nor even ever, into the very empyrean of poetry, yet invariably, seventy times, into the ampler air.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various

This monthly magazine had been made successful and prosperous under difficult circumstances and was designed to bear aloft the standard of genuine Christian Science.

From Retrospection and Introspection by Eddy, Mary Baker

Hast thou not seen the summer breeze,      The eddying leaves, and downy feather,      Whirl round a while beneath the trees,      Then bear aloft to heaven together?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various