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
Others bear aloft the trident, the emblem of Siva.
From Among the Tibetans by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
One of our citizens—a Kennebecker, by-the-way—was particularly zealous in saving the Whig flag-staff, declaring it should long remain to bear aloft the flag of freemen.
From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.
Thou seest the Father; The sad sighs gather, And bear aloft thy sorrow and his pain!
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
How reverend is the face of this tall pile; Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch’d and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity!
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel
