uprisen

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Indeed such rattle as he rated it, Is it not strange, and passing precedent, That the illustrious chief of Government Should have uprisen with such indecent speed And strenuously replied?

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

His son, Lord Lincoln, had heard Gladstone’s speech against the Reform Bill delivered in the Oxford Union, and had written home that “a man had uprisen in Israel.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

It is scarcely a country at all—only a scrap of coral reef uprisen at the foot of Mexico—Yucatan.

From The Romance of the Reaper by Casson, Herbert Newton

I stood upon the bridge uprisen to see,   So that, if I had seized not on a rock,   Down had I fallen without being pushed.

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

There sitting from the deeps uprisen, he mourn'd20 The vanquished Grecians, and resentment fierce Conceived and wrath against all-ruling Jove.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William