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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

Sister, how glorious even now these towers, What realm shall rise, with such a wondrous pair When Teucrian arms join fellowship with ours, What glory shall the Punic state upbear!

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

Huge Atlas was Electra's sire, the same Whose shoulders still the starry skies upbear.

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

Gila, in her most imperial mood, wearing a bewildering imported frock whose simple intricacies and daring contrasts were well calculated to upbear a determined spirit in a supreme combat, awaited his coming impatiently.

From The Witness by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

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

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

The desk, upbearing broken bottles and a cluttered mess of paper, letter and debris of all description, was scratched and dented.

From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne

Then, as a river of fire, they streamed slowly through the Corso, on their way to the Quirinal to thank the Pope, upbearing a banner on which the edict was printed.

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

At night, the Corso was illuminated, and many thousands passed through it in a torch-bearing procession, on their way to the Quirinal, to thank the Pope, upbearing a banner on which the edict was printed.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller

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

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

Under such persuasion, the rounded hills which upbore and encompassed Jerusalem took on a coat green as emerald and thick as civet-fur.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller

One thought, however, upbore Frieda until she was able to withdraw from the dining room.

From The Ranch Girls in Europe by Margaret Vandercook

For e'en as those mysterious Four, Who the bright whirling wheels upbore    By Chebar in the fiery blast.

From The Christian Year by John Keble

The sea upbore me, flood of the tide, on Finnish land, the welling waters.

From Beowulf by Francis Barton Gummere

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

Her litter was ablaze with candles and laden with flowers; her outsweeping train was upborne by four little pages, and a brass band followed her with unceasing music.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

The Vicarage sits immediately below the pulpit, so that the preacher's eloquence may soar on stronger pinions, upborne by the sight of the nine ugly faces to whom he has given the light of day.

From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton

This world itself was upborne on the shoulders of Chibchacum, a national Atlas, who now and then eased himself by shifting the burden, and thus caused earthquakes.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

With sacred motion swells her conscious breast; Nor are the poles upborne by airs more blest.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw