upheave

From the soil of slavery itself have sprung forth some of the most brilliant productions, whose logical levers will ultimately upheave and overthrow the system.

From Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself by Henry Bibb

Every day of my life I will upheave my soul from its inmost fastenings, and not suffer a blur to settle upon it.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach

The frozen crust was seen to upheave: and, the next moment, the head of the fox, and afterwards his whole body, appeared above the surface.

From Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid

He loved to attack, to upheave, to overthrow.

From For the Faith by Evelyn Everett-Green

The latter was mightily amused by the adventure, and continued for a considerable time afterwards to upheave his huge shoulders with suppressed laughter.

From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

“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

He traces the origin of petroleum to volcanic disturbances which in early geological times upheaved the water and land surface of the earth and killed immense quantities of fish.

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

"A pretty considerable upheaving of the elements of social life, Mr. Grant," said he, upon encountering the old gentleman on Ferret's steps at the front door of The Hero.

From Quodlibet by John Pendleton Kennedy

Their walls, of a dull, yellowish red, seem more like an upheaving of the soil itself, than massive stone piled up by the labor of man.

From Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

But dip out as much as he would there seemed no abatement in the upheaving of the snowy cereal, and the kettles continued to foam over like so many huge glasses of soda water.

From Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran by John McElroy

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

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

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

From Stories by English Authors: the Sea by Various

The fire, communicating with a powder magazine, produced an explosion which uphove the buildings like an earthquake, and prostrated more than a third of a mile of the city walls.

From The Empire of Russia by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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