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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 Alfred Noyes

Gretchen, in the golden cloud, is raised above all past delusions, worthy to redeem and upbear the wise man who stumbled into the pit of error while searching for truth.

From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller

The heavenly quality of them would upbear the vessel and cargo.

From The Development of Embroidery in America by Candace Wheeler

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 Theodore C. Williams

If they sometimes subdue, they must finally upbear me, for I seek the Universal—and that must be the best.

From Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller

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 Porter Emerson Browne

I was conscious, moreover, of the strong upbearing of my companion's hand that lent wings to my feet.

From When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland

While "Paradise Lost" was thus slowly upbearing its author to the highest heaven of fame, Milton was achieving other titles to renown, one of which he deemed nothing inferior.

From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

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

From Paul Faber, Surgeon by George MacDonald

He seemed their only hope—the Atlas upbearing all the fates of Athens.

From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis

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

For e'en as those mysterious Four, Who the bright whirling wheels upbore    By Chebar in the fiery blast.

From The Christian Year by John Keble

And when war was red Around us, friends upbore the gentle dead Home, and dear women's hands about them wound White shrouds, and here they sleep in the old ground Belovèd.

From The Trojan Women of Euripedes by Euripedes

And like you, he never murmured; like you, he upbore the weary, and gave drink to the thirsty, and reflected heaven in his face.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper

But me the sea upbore, 580 The flood downlong the tide with the weltering of waters, All onto the Finnland.

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

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

In this wild, scrambling rush Brown dropped to the rear, while the Lieutenant, though physically the least robust of the party, forged ahead even of myself, upborne by his zealous spirit.

From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Robert Ames Bennet

He was upborne by that which he beat against, too gross an element to live in, were it not for the dose of life-breath in the soul.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

He must have been inspired and upborne in this difficult task by the spirit of a true artist.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

She could remember yet how he had carried her over the mountains in the midst of the storm, how she had been so bravely upborne by his arms to his heart.

From The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado by Cyrus Townsend Brady