upheave
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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
Taras also felt his soul upheave, but he conquered his wrath, knowing the people.
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
The mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson
A queen in heaven while yet so young, Too high thou dost thyself upheave.
From The Pearl by Sophie Jewett
There was a quick gliding movement, an upheave and a bump—and then—crash came one of the mighty rollers as before.
From A Veldt Vendetta 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
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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
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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
Repentance must be a wonderful emotion—that upheaving, ecstatic repentance that follows big sins.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
In fact, Moses did feel that sort of tumult and upheaving of the soul which a young man experiences when the great crisis comes which is to plunge him into the struggles of manhood.
From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Myself, and not myself, I sit here as if I had just come out of the upheaving of an earthquake.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
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
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
"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