upraise

Example Sentences

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I have spent fifty years of my life trying to upraise my class.

From From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography by George Edwards M.P. O.B.E.

Equally honourable, equally dear, with that mother of His flesh whom you would fain upraise above all other women.

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah

Bahá’u’lláh passed forty years of His life in prison and exile in order that He might upraise the banner of the oneness of the world of men.

From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Also ye of the bow and the buskin, praised be your peer,5 Now, henceforth and forever—O latest to whom I upraise Hand and heart and voice!

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

The necessary dresses, Correct and true And all brand-new, The company possesses: Henceforth our Court costume Shall live in song and story, For we'll upraise The dead old days Of Athens in her glory!

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir