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uprear

[uhp-reer] / ʌpˈrɪər /




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Did Something uprear Itself out there in the black fog?

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

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

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

But, where my palace stood, with the same stone    I will uprear a shady hermitage; And there my spirit shall keep house alone,    Accomplishing its age.

From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

He seemed to shrink in stature, standing before the other man's uprear of imperious will.

From The Debtor A Novel by Stevens, William Dodge




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