uprisen

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It turned out that the Cossacks and the uprisen people were not a match for the Poles, and it was not in the interest of the Tartars to give the Cossacks the fruits of victory.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

He had heard the remarkable speech of his friend, Mr. Gladstone, in the Oxford Union, against the Reform Bill, and had written home regarding him, that "a man had uprisen in Israel."

From The Grand Old Man by Cook, Richard B. (Richard Briscoe)

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

From the north had uprisen a column of light, of about the apparent breadth of the Milky Way, but far more brilliant, and defined clearly at the edges.

From Bressant by Hawthorne, Julian

For lo! the world's great Shepherd now is born, A blessed Babe, an Infant full of power: After long night uprisen is the morn, Renowning Bethlem in the Saviour.

From Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse by Schauffler, Robert Haven