bear aloft
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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
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
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
He says that we English-speaking class of foreigners bear aloft a banner with the strange device 'All right.'
From The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' by Gustave Doré
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 John S. Springer
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