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
How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity!
From Side Lights by Allen, Grant
In man, the spirit sustains the constitutional weakness, as in the winged tribes the feathers bear aloft the body.
From Redgauntlet by Scott, Walter, Sir
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
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 Lathrop, George Parsons
