uprear

Example Sentences

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It is odd how individuality will uprear itself before its own consciousness, in the most adverse circumstances.

From The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

Yet might she love me to uprear her state: I, but perhaps she loves some nobler mate.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover

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.

It is now the twelfth hour of the night, birds of darkness are on the wing, the spectres uprear, the dead walk, the living dream.

From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John

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

From Trail Tales by Gillilan, James David