uprear

Example Sentences

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Did Something uprear Itself out there in the black fog?

From The Thing from the Lake by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

The mighty arms you raise appear Like trunks which elephants uprear, And as you move this mountain-king543 Is glorious with the light you bring.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Five towns their anvils for the war uprear, Crustumium, Tibur, glorying in her might, 748 Ardea, Atina strong, Antemnæ's tower-girt height.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

But to uprear the stones of that great circle would be beyond all our art, and much more would it be impossible to-day, to transport them from their distant quarries across the rugged mountains.

From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

The bluffs uprear and grimly peer far over Dawson town; They see its lights a blaze o' nights and harshly they look down; They mock the plan and plot of man with grim, ironic frown.

From Ballads of a Cheechako by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)