upraise

Example Sentences

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Having arranged her bouquet of all such tender plants as do now "upraise their loaded stems," she walks toward the library window, and, finding it open, steps in.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)

Also, ye of the bow and the buskin, praised be your peer, Now, henceforth and forever,—O latest to whom I upraise Hand and heart and voice!

From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)

It bloom'd in simplicity's meekest of form, The spoil of the winds and the gust of the storm; Like the offspring of want on a pitiless shore, No hand to upraise it—no heart to deplore!

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832 by Various

Then Natasha's voice soared up clear and strong above the organ notes, singing the first line of the old well-known chant— The strain upraise of joy and praise.

From The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror by Griffith, George Chetwynd

Down with the rosemary and bays, Down with the mistletoe; Instead of holly, now upraise The greener box for show.

From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)