upraise

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Thy city fill once more, Thy temple-walls upraise, There will we Thee adore With joyful songs of praise, Thee, merciful, adored, We bless and sanctify, With wine-cups filled up high, By blessings of the Lord.

From Hebrew Literature by Wilson, Epiphanius

The floor and upraise of this recess is plastered with adobe, which in several places is smooth and well made.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

They made that upraise following the ore, and that’s why the mine was opened for the second time here.

From The Plunderer by Duer, Douglas

Then Natasha's voice soared up clear and strong above the organ notes, singing the first line of the old well-known chant— The strain upraise of joy and praise.

From The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror by Griffith, George Chetwynd

Hast often seen, how in such fearful times, She would upraise her speaking eyes to heaven, And stand in silence, while her countenance Reflected beams she thence appeared to catch; Such was her bearing then.

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Sargant, Jane Alice