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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

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

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

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

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

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

The Veni burst forth in an unrestrained upbearing of confident petition: "Keep far our foes; give peace at home"—and the door closed behind Nurse Rosemary.

From The Rosary by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay

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

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

The wide, shimmering plain of sea—its aerial blue, stretching beyond the limits of my vision in one direction, upbearing transverse, cloud-like islands in another, varied and shadowed by shore and sky—mingled its essence with mine.

From The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard

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

Her earthly birth held her to the earth, but the ocean upbore her, and the breath of God drove her on.

From The Marquis of Lossie by George MacDonald

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

And like you, he never murmured; like you, he upbore the weary, and gave drink to the thirsty, and reflected heaven in his face.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper

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

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

Afar above a flock of rooks soared, winding round and round a geometrical staircase in the air, with outstretched wings like leaves upborne and slowly rotating edge first.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies

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

For the last few minutes she seemed upborne by some secret thought I could neither fathom nor understand.

From One of My Sons by Anna Katharine Green

By thee upborne, his name ascends the skies.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões