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

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

PEAR-TREE High o'er the mead-flowers' hidden feet I bear aloft my burden sweet.

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by Morris, William

This monthly magazine had been made successful and prosperous under difficult circumstances and was designed to bear aloft the standard of genuine Christian Science.

From Retrospection and Introspection by Eddy, Mary Baker

Mr. Hill's wings do bear aloft and sustain: if not always, nor even ever, into the very empyrean of poetry, yet invariably, seventy times, into the ampler air.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various