uprear
Example Sentences
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The bluffs uprear and grimly peer far over Dawson town; They see its lights a blaze o' nights and harshly they look down; They mock the plan and plot of man with grim, ironic frown.
From Ballads of a Cheechako by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
Did Something uprear Itself out there in the black fog?
From The Thing from the Lake by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)
Fire-eyed Valour, guard the land; Here uprear thy fearless crest; Princess, Kate, Alice, &c.
From The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage by Moses, Montrose Jonas
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
S. Nay, my mammy and our Ursel did uprear the beds.
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von
