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
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
Why cannot the soaring spirit bear aloft its earthly tenement?
From Old Fritz and the New Era by Langley, Peter
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
He writes:— 'But when I mount behind the coach, And bear aloft a flaming torch.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
