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
Why cannot the soaring spirit bear aloft its earthly tenement?
From Old Fritz and the New Era by Langley, Peter
Pius Sixth, with his plush and tiara, and power of the Keys, they bear aloft: of natural size,—made of lath and combustible gum.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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 Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
