uprise

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“Then another horrible incident occurs and the faculty uprise in such a quick manner, like a wildfire,” Tierney said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2018

It is a shameful aspect of the human kind that the nations who uprise against one dictator always choose another one in its place.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2018

"Versace's team knows how to do the look," says Kal Ruttenstein, the fashion director at Bloomingdale's, pointing out that sales of Versace merchandise at his company's stores have been "all on the uprise."

From Time Magazine Archive

General Praise. 1All, from the sun's uprise, Unto his setting rays, Resound in jubilees, The great Jehovah's praise.

From Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination by Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell)

And should your maiden heart uprise Against fain ears and full-fain eyes, Upon your lips, that cannot err, I set my kiss-interpreter!

From Eyes of Youth A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, A.O. by Various