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Thrice Neptune ventur'd to upraise his arms Grim frowning,—thrice the flames too fierce he found, And shrunk beneath the waters.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

Whereas, on certain boughs and sprays Now divers birds are heard to sing, And sundry flowers their heads upraise, Hail to the coming on of Spring!

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

But only when thine honour shall demand, Or injured right, upraise thy martial hand.

From The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Wilfred S. Skeats

My tunnel went into the hill on a slight upraise, and I could do the work alone.

From The Spirit of Sweetwater by Hamlin Garland

The Strain upraise of joy and praise. m arr.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1976 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The languid rose her head upraises, and listens to the nightingale, while his wild and thrilling praises from his trembling bosom gush: the languid rose her head upraises, and listens with a blush.

From Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

The Doctor knows that Shorty is not named because of brevity in speech, and upraises a white hand.

From From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days by Charles King

The king, for whom the songs awake, As fair return the bard to make— A golden chain upraises.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various

It is Lilian: she is trembling visibly, and the face she upraises to his is pale—nay, gray—with dread suspense.

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

Peter Stock was now holding up the Frenchman's arm, as a referee upraises the whip of a winning fighter.

From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort

So, here, Washington seems to have just stepped forward and, his head slightly upraised and with eyes fixed on something in the distance, readies himself to speak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

When her character, Aurora Fane, joins a throng of socialites surveying the nearly completed Met, the camera lingers on her face, upraised in awe.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

In Game 3 of the 1932 series at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, the Yankees’ Babe Ruth gestured with an upraised finger toward the Cubs pitcher, Charlie Root, and walloped his next pitch for a home run.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2022

Located 300 feet above the canyon floor, it’s been described as a playground of upraised sandstone.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2021

I was brought back, almost to the surface, by a sharp pain slashing my upraised hand, but I couldn’t find my way back far enough to open my eyes.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

It's an anti-colonialism commentary whose heroes validate the brown people's struggles around the world while distinctly upraising Indian pride.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2022

The upraising again of the ground on which the temple stands, to nearly its original height, appears to have occurred about the time of the formation of Monte Nuovo.

From Wonders of Creation by Anonymous

It was one of those marvellous structures erected by little insects, which to Cameron appeared even more wonderful than the upraising of the Egyptian pyramids by human hands.

From Dick Sands, the Boy Captain by Ellen E. Frewer

Hugh felt that the only possible hope of regeneration and upraising lay in the individual; and that if the tone of individual feeling could be purified and strengthened, these organisations would become mere unmeaning words.

From Beside Still Waters by Arthur Christopher Benson

In these groups, from the languid resuscitation and upraising of the pardoned, to the despair of the condemned, every variety of expression, anxiety, anguish, rage, and despair, is powerfully delineated.

From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare