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Each hand an Alpine spear 766 Waves, and an oblong shield their stalwart arms upbear.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

If they sometimes subdue, they must finally upbear me, for I seek the universal,—and that must be the best.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller

The white bones, which my body's wreck outlast, Girdled in flowing black they will upbear, Sprinkle with rare, old wine, and gently cast In bath of snowy milk, with pious care.

From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Theodore C. Williams

He would be lifted on the hands of men, their plaudits would upbear his soul, and he would at last triumph, sealed by the sanction of his kind.

From The Prisoner by Alice Brown

No awning was spread over the square, this evening, and every eye beheld the ascent of the resurrected saints, a wondrous cloud seeming to upbear them upon its billowy whiteness.

From The Mark of the Beast by Sidney Watson

From before it one might gaze upon league upon league of sullen sea, stretching to where, far in the dim distance, lay the curve of the horizon upbearing the gray dome of the sky.

From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne

Mr. Purdy once saw, upon a single great mountain-side, ten thousand of these wonderful plants, upbearing their beautiful, pure lilies—a sight outrivaling the poet's vision of the golden daffodils.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

There the swift relief was like an upbearing into another air, charged with more intimate222 largess for life.

From Christmas A Story by Leon V. (Leon Victor) Solon

While "Paradise Lost" was thus slowly upbearing its author to the highest heaven of fame, Milton was achieving other titles to renown, one of which he deemed nothing inferior.

From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

The bier of General Jackson has lately passed, upbearing a golden urn.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

When other actors faltered -and every member of the excellent cast, except Boris Karloff as the judge, was jittered off top form on opening night -Julie upbore them.

From Time Magazine Archive

But me the sea upbore, 580 The flood downlong the tide with the weltering of waters, All onto the Finnland.

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

Splinter'd are the columns that upbore The leafy palace, green for aye: The shivered branches whirr and sigh, Yawn the huge trunks with mighty groan, The roots, upriven, creak and moan!

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke

They were chilled, they were sleepy, they were utterly exhausted; but they kept their eyes fixed on the perplexing, resplendent object that upbore them.

From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

So clad, godlike Achilles trial made If his arms fitted him, and gave free scope465 To his proportion'd limbs; buoyant they proved As wings, and high upbore his airy tread.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper

The seal of Eton College, dated 1474, attests to the Assumption; in that seal Mary is shown upborne by six angels with the arms of Eton under her feet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rādhā's feet do not touch the ground, but are upborne by lotus flowers that spring up beneath them.

From Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna by Vidy?pati Th?kura

In this manner they descended several hundred feet, and when from the bottom they looked up over the way they had come they felt that they must surely have been upborne by wings.

From Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast by Kirk Munroe

Then they had no doubt that they could soar or hover in the air, upborne by their wings.

From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

And the chance would be gone, Which her hopes had upborne, For a twelvemonth and some few days more.

From The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook by A. Novice