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uprear

[uhp-reer] / ʌpˈrɪər /




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Ay, but when our trust Totters, and faith is shattered to the base, Grand words will not uprear it.

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar

The distant mountains, that uprear  Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear  As we to higher levels rise.

From Trail Tales by Gillilan, James David

Did Something uprear Itself out there in the black fog?

From The Thing from the Lake by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

Below that came the rapids in their first fury, with scattered cellars into which the flood swept to uprear itself in a second into pyramids of force and foam.

From The Rapids by Sullivan, Alan

But to uprear the stones of that great circle would be beyond all our art, and much more would it be impossible to-day, to transport them from their distant quarries across the rugged mountains.

From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright




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