upraise

Example Sentences

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Equally honourable, equally dear, with that mother of His flesh whom you would fain upraise above all other women.

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah

My voice I will upraise To thank the world for every bird that sings.

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric

Mrs. Fane looked with her kind round eyes into the worn face that tried to upraise itself to greet her.

From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss

Then Natasha's voice soared up clear and strong above the organ notes, singing the first line of the old well-known chant— The strain upraise of joy and praise.

From The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror by Griffith, George Chetwynd

Probably this artifice is greatly unconscious, the meed of the trained musician; but let no singer think to upraise his voice before the Lord ere he master the axioms of prosody.

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher