uprisen

Example Sentences

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Then all at once, the whole dream-world vanishes, like uprisen ghosts at the crowing of the cock.

From Memories A Story of German Love by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

Now they have uprisen, and, asseverating that classical education is a pricked bubble, ask boldly for expensive apparatus and a larger tract of space in the time-table.

From The Lighter Side of School Life by Hay, Ian

It is scarcely a country at all—only a scrap of coral reef uprisen at the foot of Mexico—Yucatan.

From The Romance of the Reaper by Casson, Herbert Newton

Indeed such rattle as he rated it, Is it not strange, and passing precedent, That the illustrious chief of Government Should have uprisen with such indecent speed And strenuously replied?

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

For here was instantly recognized the challenge of a radical spirit uprisen in full and ruthless rebellion against each and every time-hallowed usage and tradition.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto