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
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
High o’er the mead-flowers’ hidden feet I bear aloft my burden sweet.
From Poems By the Way by William Morris
Time was I feared to know or feel The spur of aught but gilded weal; To bear aloft the victor, Fame, Would ev'n have champed a stately shame Of bit and bridle.
From Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems by George Parsons Lathrop
It now must bear aloft a hymn, The call of God proclaiming; Pictures of blood its lines shall limn, Drawn bold in letters flaming,— Its name shall be: "The Free North's Hymn!"
From Poems and Songs by Arthur Hubbell Palmer
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