uprear

Example Sentences

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All hail, ye mountains that uprear     Your lordly heights magnificent!

From Canada, My Land and Other Compositions in Verse by MacKeracher, W. M.

Below that came the rapids in their first fury, with scattered cellars into which the flood swept to uprear itself in a second into pyramids of force and foam.

From The Rapids by Sullivan, Alan

Beyond the lake, rising in mid-air like a great gray wall, are the sheer precipices of Monument Mountain, and in the hazy distance the loftier Taconics uprear their grand Dome in the illimitable blue.

From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.

From Graded Memory Selections by Hughes, Charles C.

In great masses they uprear their heads, peeping curiously in at the windows, trailing lovingly round the porches, nestling under the eaves, drooping coquettishly at the angles.

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