upheave

Example Sentences

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I never did, and many years went by; Then, near a Southern port, one Christmas Eve, I watched a gale go roaring through the sky, Making the cauldrons of the clouds upheave.

From Georgian Poetry 1913-15 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

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

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 Reid, Mayne

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 Arnim, Elizabeth von