uprear
Example Sentences
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The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.
From Graded Memory Selections by Charles C. Hughes
Five towns their anvils for the war uprear, Crustumium, Tibur, glorying in her might, 748 Ardea, Atina strong, Antemnæ's tower-girt height.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed, There but wild oats and barren darnel spring; For tender violet and narcissus bright Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
From The Bucolics and Eclogues by Virgil
She was the first American woman to uprear the banner of her sex in the matter of independence; she may be said to have been the prototype of all the succeeding upholders of "women's rights."
From Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Rouse Larus
In cloudy height surrounding me, uprear The Rocky Mountains their uncounted heads.
From The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Wilfred S. Skeats
