upraise

Example Sentences

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Hast often seen, how in such fearful times, She would upraise her speaking eyes to heaven, And stand in silence, while her countenance Reflected beams she thence appeared to catch; Such was her bearing then.

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Sargant, Jane Alice

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

It will upraise the standard of the oneness of humanity.

From Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era by Esslemont, J. E. (John Ebenezer)

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

He struck the root of the tree with his tunnel and made an upraise to the inside of the trunk.

From Bears I Have Met—and Others by Kelly, Allen