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
Thou, when the rosy morn restores the light, First arm thy soldiers for th' ensuing fight: Thyself the fated sword of Vulcan wield, And bear aloft th' impenetrable shield.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
He says that we English-speaking class of foreigners bear aloft a banner with the strange device 'All right.'
From The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' by Doré, Gustave
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 Springer, John S.
