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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

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

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

Up through the waves the Dolphins bound, A hundred bended backs are found, Each one more eager than the rest To upbear the sweet Player on Ocean's breast.

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

Gretchen, in the golden cloud, is raised above all past delusions, worthy to redeem and upbear the wise man who stumbled into the pit of error while searching for truth.

From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller

She spread her arms wide, in indication of the vastness of the upbearing body whereon she sat.

From Paul Faber, Surgeon by George MacDonald

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

The lions upbearing the throne in the hall of audience were of gold.

From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis

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 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

One small foot upbore her weight, the other unconsciously, but most daintily, poised on a toe.

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

By my granite shape of yore Passed the priests, with stately pschent, And the mystic boat upbore, Emblemed and magnificent.

From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Agnes Lee

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

In late June its naked shelves and battlements upbore great snow-fields, and its huge rifts or passes—the Gil-i-Shah, nearly 11,700 feet in altitude, and the Pambakal, 11,400—were full of snow.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

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

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

He was upborne by that which he beat against, too gross an element to live in, were it not for the dose of life-breath in the soul.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

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

I just tried The slippers on, amazed to see them shaped So fairly to my feet, when, all at once, I felt my steps upborne and hurried on Almost as if with wings.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Richard Henry Stoddard