uprear
Example Sentences
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Yet might she love me to uprear her state: I, but perhaps she loves some nobler mate.
From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover
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 Taylor, Edward Fairfax
Ye others round him straight the turf uprear; As for our sires was done of yore, An oblong square delve ye once more.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno
Here falls a cold rill drop by drop, and green grass-blades uprear Their heads, and fallen leaves are thick, and locusts prattle here.
From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus
Nor a spot More fit to stir the poet's phantasy; Grey Old Man of the Mountain, awfully There, from thy wreath of clouds thou dost uprear Those features grand,—the same eternally!
From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Afton, Effie
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