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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

The service comes to a close in one great surging chant, upborne on the throbbing waves of the organ notes.

From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy

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 Morris, William

A murmur of waves breaking on the beach was upborne to his ears, as he strode rapidly on through the rimy heather plants and the chill, bracing whiff of the salt sea.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

Beneath, the forest lay sleeping in the lustrous sunlight, and now and again from its cool recess would be upborne the soft note of a hoopoe.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram