upheave

Example Sentences

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Therefore a time would come when the elastic and explosive forces of the imprisoned gases would upheave this ponderous cover and drive out for themselves openings through tall chimneys.

From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules

Father, we confess, And were our arms unbound, we would upheave Our sinful hands with sorrowing hearts to heaven.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

One would have it stop, take heed, upheave....

From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous

The Archimedian lever found a resting-place in his brain, and sundry of his thoughts seem not inapt to upheave the world.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various

You will find the smaller communities living along in unison with the seasons, having neither extreme poverty nor wealth—none of the violent plagues of upheave and unrest which afflict our great populations.

From My Life and Work by Ford, Henry