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Strong-winged this Eagle, either wafter ready To buoy and to upbear that body great.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 13, 1890 by Various

What shall I say of those fair buildings, which ’tis so wonderful to see the ground among those fens upbear?’

From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Kingsley, Charles

Sandalphon, whose white wings to heaven upbear The weight of human prayer, Stood silent in the still eternal Light Of God, one dreadful night.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred

The white bones, which my body's wreck outlast, Girdled in flowing black they will upbear, Sprinkle with rare, old wine, and gently cast In bath of snowy milk, with pious care.

From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Williams, Theodore C.

Sister, how glorious even now these towers, What realm shall rise, with such a wondrous pair When Teucrian arms join fellowship with ours, What glory shall the Punic state upbear!

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

Mr. Purdy once saw, upon a single great mountain-side, ten thousand of these wonderful plants, upbearing their beautiful, pure lilies—a sight outrivaling the poet's vision of the golden daffodils.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

From before it one might gaze upon league upon league of sullen sea, stretching to where, far in the dim distance, lay the curve of the horizon upbearing the gray dome of the sky.

From A Fool There Was by Browne, Porter Emerson

She spread her arms wide, in indication of the vastness of the upbearing body whereon she sat.

From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George

There the swift relief was like an upbearing into another air, charged with more intimate222 largess for life.

From Christmas A Story by Solon, Leon V. (Leon Victor)

The bier of General Jackson has lately passed, upbearing a golden urn.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

When other actors faltered -and every member of the excellent cast, except Boris Karloff as the judge, was jittered off top form on opening night -Julie upbore them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Deep and raggedly they drove, impelled by the brief flash of power that upbore their owner.

From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson

The augur's gown he wore, Short, striped and belted; and his lifted hand The sacred buckler on the left upbore.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

It was strange how this purpose upbore and consoled me; for I needed consolation.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various

The sea upbore me, flood of the tide, on Finnish land, the welling waters.

From Beowulf by Gummere, Francis Barton

The seal of Eton College, dated 1474, attests to the Assumption; in that seal Mary is shown upborne by six angels with the arms of Eton under her feet.

From Time Magazine Archive

He seemed to faint, and to be upborne into the upper regions of the sky, where he gave the beauty a rapturous kiss, and then they both paused upon a mountain-side.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael

Her litter was ablaze with candles and laden with flowers; her outsweeping train was upborne by four little pages, and a brass band followed her with unceasing music.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee

She obeyed, and found herself upborne by magic wings, which carried her more swiftly than the wind over forest tops, shining river, and city spires and domes.

From The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Harrison, Constance Cary

Wak'd by his warmer ray, the reptile young Come wing'd abroad; by the light air upborne, Lighter, and full of soul.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various