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
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
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 Springer, John S.
Others bear aloft the trident, the emblem of Siva.
From Among the Tibetans by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
Thou seest the Father; Thy sad sighs gather, And bear aloft Thy sorrow and His pain!
From Faust by Taylor, Bayard
