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Wild River, a little farther down, you may ford almost dry-shod, and in four hours it shall reach such heights and depths as might upbear our mightiest man-of-war.

From Gala-days by Gail Hamilton

Our wings are fancies, incense-borne, That feather-light upbear.

From Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry by Various

No awning was spread over the square, this evening, and every eye beheld the ascent of the resurrected saints, a wondrous cloud seeming to upbear them upon its billowy whiteness.

From The Mark of the Beast by Sidney Watson

Sister, how glorious even now these towers, What realm shall rise, with such a wondrous pair When Teucrian arms join fellowship with ours, What glory shall the Punic state upbear!

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

He would be lifted on the hands of men, their plaudits would upbear his soul, and he would at last triumph, sealed by the sanction of his kind.

From The Prisoner by Alice Brown

The wide, shimmering plain of sea—its aerial blue, stretching beyond the limits of my vision in one direction, upbearing transverse, cloud-like islands in another, varied and shadowed by shore and sky—mingled its essence with mine.

From The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard

Donald said no more; but his form as supported by the two men became noticeably heavier, as though it had been suddenly deprived of some upbearing and stimulating force.

From At War with Pontiac The Totem of the Bear by Kirk Munroe

From before it one might gaze upon league upon league of sullen sea, stretching to where, far in the dim distance, lay the curve of the horizon upbearing the gray dome of the sky.

From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne

The lions upbearing the throne in the hall of audience were of gold.

From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis

While "Paradise Lost" was thus slowly upbearing its author to the highest heaven of fame, Milton was achieving other titles to renown, one of which he deemed nothing inferior.

From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

When other actors faltered -and every member of the excellent cast, except Boris Karloff as the judge, was jittered off top form on opening night -Julie upbore them.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, albeit he could not swim, the hand of God upbore him, that he won safe to the dry land again.

From The Fall of the Niebelungs by Margaret Armour

Dim and beautiful indeed was the hope that upbore the grave and beautiful Theban maiden; and we shall see her resolution equaled, though hardly surpassed, by Christian Antigones of equal love and surer faith.

From A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Then from that shore the wind upbore a cry: `Thou Sea, thou Sea of Darkness! why, oh why Dost waste thy West in unthrift mystery?'

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier

For e'en as those mysterious Four, Who the bright whirling wheels upbore    By Chebar in the fiery blast.

From The Christian Year by John Keble

The seal of Eton College, dated 1474, attests to the Assumption; in that seal Mary is shown upborne by six angels with the arms of Eton under her feet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wak'd by his warmer ray, the reptile young Come wing'd abroad; by the light air upborne, Lighter, and full of soul.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

The Vicarage sits immediately below the pulpit, so that the preacher's eloquence may soar on stronger pinions, upborne by the sight of the nine ugly faces to whom he has given the light of day.

From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton

The service comes to a close in one great surging chant, upborne on the throbbing waves of the organ notes.

From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield

The sea-birds whirling Saw dead upborne The fishers that went forth upon the morn.

From Nirvana Days by Cale Young Rice