upbear
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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
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
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
What shall I say of those fair buildings, which ’tis so wonderful to see the ground among those fens upbear?’
From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley
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
The heather was pulled, and set together upright as it grew, only much closer, so that the tops made a dense surface, and the many stalks, each weak, a strong upbearing whole.
From Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald
I was conscious, moreover, of the strong upbearing of my companion's hand that lent wings to my feet.
From When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland
It seemed that I stood and watched a world awake, the great night still upbearing me above the flood of the day.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee
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
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
And when war was red Around us, friends upbore the gentle dead Home, and dear women's hands about them wound White shrouds, and here they sleep in the old ground Belovèd.
From The Trojan Women of Euripedes by Euripedes
The sea upbore me, flood of the tide, on Finnish land, the welling waters.
From Beowulf by Francis Barton Gummere
Yet the effort told, bringing us into quieter water, although we upbore the entire weight of the boat on our shoulders after we made firm footing.
From Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France by Randall Parrish
Deep and raggedly they drove, impelled by the brief flash of power that upbore their owner.
From Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
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
In this wild, scrambling rush Brown dropped to the rear, while the Lieutenant, though physically the least robust of the party, forged ahead even of myself, upborne by his zealous spirit.
From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Robert Ames Bennet
And now their king, upborne by fame, unto the Gods shall go, Upon whose shrines he vows himself; his name shall live in tale.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
She could remember yet how he had carried her over the mountains in the midst of the storm, how she had been so bravely upborne by his arms to his heart.
From The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado by Cyrus Townsend Brady
Perhaps a purer time is near, when, upborne by a sense of the dignity of romance and the sacredness of life, man will refrain from laying rough hands on his mute brothers.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
