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

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

It is like the volcanic fires that flame in the depths of the earth; it will yet upheave the ocean and the land, and flame up to heaven.

From A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke

Others will upheave the blacksmith's hammer, or drive the plane over the carpenter's bench, or take the lapstone and the awl, and learn the trade of shoe-making.

From True Stories of History and Biography by Nathaniel Hawthorne

All her life she had been servile—servile with the sudden rare tremendous insurrections that upheave certain natures brought up in servility, swift tempests more devastating than the steady fighting of systematic rebels.

From The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim

“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

The nervousness which resulted from hard work and a long struggle for existence had not only given him palsy, but had left him with an upheaving diaphragm.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

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

The current still ran swiftly, but with no gigantic upheaving waves as before.

From The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado by Cyrus Townsend Brady

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

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

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