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; 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
Or boar from Argive woods, or noble conger From Sicyon's bay, the conger which the god Of the deep sea doth bear aloft to heaven, Fit banquet for his brethren.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Still higher, towered a guardian mountain of astonishing majesty, seeming to bear aloft on a petrified cushion a royal crown of iron.
From The Car of Destiny by Both, Armand
“Then on to Freedom’s stormy height, Go forth in valour and in might, And bear aloft this emblem bright, Amid the battle fray.”
From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Comfield, Amelia Stratton
