upraise
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
But only when thine honour shall demand, Or injured right, upraise thy martial hand.
From The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Skeats, Wilfred S.
Equally honourable, equally dear, with that mother of His flesh whom you would fain upraise above all other women.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah
The necessary dresses, Correct and true And all brand-new, The company possesses: Henceforth our Court costume Shall live in song and story, For we'll upraise The dead old days Of Athens in her glory!
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
Having arranged her bouquet of all such tender plants as do now "upraise their loaded stems," she walks toward the library window, and, finding it open, steps in.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
It bloom'd in simplicity's meekest of form, The spoil of the winds and the gust of the storm; Like the offspring of want on a pitiless shore, No hand to upraise it—no heart to deplore!
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.