uprear

Example Sentences

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Did Something uprear Itself out there in the black fog?

From The Thing from the Lake by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

You who did with anguish bear me, For the Church you did uprear me: Let your blessing with me dwell.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold

It is now the twelfth hour of the night, birds of darkness are on the wing, the spectres uprear, the dead walk, the living dream.

From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John

"The Whisperer ... would try to uprear a new creed—his own."

From The Orchard of Tears by Rohmer, Sax

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 Larus, John Rouse