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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

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

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

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

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

Its slender stems rise from many a mossy bank, upbearing their few delicately slashed, pure-white stars, which seem to shed a gentle radiance about them upon the woodland scene.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It reached from floor to ceiling; the lower parts, black marble, carved into crouching Atlases, with great muscles that upbore the superstructure.

From The Octopus : A story of California by Frank Norris

Then from that shore the wind upbore a cry: `Thou Sea, thou Sea of Darkness! why, oh why Dost waste thy West in unthrift mystery?'

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier

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 dwarf'd, deformed limbs upbore The lengthen'd body's ponderous load; The scales the impervious surface wore, Like links of burnish'd harness, glow'd.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various

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 reality he was at no period so full of life and health, so harmoniously inspired and upborne by a great enthusiasm.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

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

She obeyed, and found herself upborne by magic wings, which carried her more swiftly than the wind over forest tops, shining river, and city spires and domes.

From The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Constance Cary Harrison

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