upheave

A queen in heaven while yet so young, Too high thou dost thyself upheave.

From The Pearl by Sophie Jewett

To my unspeakable and heartfelt relief we were now on the upheave of the curling combers, and those horrible fins were still behind.

From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford

It is I who must find this treasure, this fulcrum to the lever which is going to upheave France.

From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath

These evils are sot too firm on American soil, it will take a greater power than Miss Meechim’s tracts to upheave ’em.

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Marietta Holley

Brown rocks, left bare by the receding tide, upheave their slippery backs, heavily festooned with seaweed, and the broad level sands lie wet and glistening in the sun.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford

“If I had known, I’d have had a heart attack,” he said also, a reference to a point when things went especially upheaved.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022

The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown upheaved many things in the U.S., including the career of DeRay Mckesson, who quit his job as an educator to become a full-time activist.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2018

Her well-to-do lifestyle is upheaved by news of her husband leaving her for another woman.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2017

But the newly upheaved anagram did not articulate intelligently.

From Time Magazine Archive

We seem to be living through the biologic revolution, so far anyway, without being upheaved or even much disturbed by it.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

But as other states have led the way in upheaving their systems, Washington has been slow to follow suit.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2022

The first time I came to Hammars, I was barely a year old and knew nothing about the great and upheaving love that had brought me there.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018

The most tremendous displacing and revolutionizing thoughts were upheaving in him, with reference to Isabel; nor—though at the time he was hardly conscious of such a thing—were these thoughts wholly unwelcome to him.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville

A whole new nature is blindly upheaving itself, with cravings and clamorings, which neither the boy himself nor often surrounding friends understand.

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The upheaving force does not appear to have acted at one point, but along a line traversing the Val del Bove.

From Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions by G. F. Rodwell

It lay, a black mass, and whether it was a vast huddle of weeds, or a great whale killed by the earthquake, or solid land uphove by the volcanic rupture, was not conjecturable.

From Stories by English Authors: the Sea by Various

Vast showers of splinters of ice fell as if from the sky, and rained like arrows through the smoke, but if there were any great blocks uphove they did not touch the ship.

From The Frozen Pirate by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell

Then with the sobbing grief he strove, For he saw his name thereon; And the heart within his breast uphove As the pen’s tale now he won.

From Poems By the Way by William Morris

Then with the sobbing grief he strove, For he saw his name thereon; And the heart within his breast uphove As the pen's tale now he won.

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris

"An island uphove by an earthquake," said I. "Great thunder!" he cried.

From Stories by English Authors: the Sea by Various