upheave

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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

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

Each body of water has its own currents, but when the hurricane is abroad they mysteriously intermingle, and from the ocean to the remotest mountain lake the same tremor will upheave them all.

From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Houghton, Louise Seymour

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 The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North by Harvey, William

We live on a volcanic mass, which at any moment may upheave and blow us to glory without the benefit of the clergy, the most of whom are in the army of Dixie.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various