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uprear

[uhp-reer] / ʌpˈrɪər /




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Nor a spot More fit to stir the poet's phantasy; Grey Old Man of the Mountain, awfully There, from thy wreath of clouds thou dost uprear Those features grand,—the same eternally!

From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton

Fire-eyed Valour, guard the land; Here uprear thy fearless crest; Princess, Kate, Alice, &c.

From The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage by Montrose Jonas Moses

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

From John Lyly by John Dover Wilson

Here waves uprear themselves, their tops blown back By the gay, sunny wind, which whips the blue And breaks it into gleams and sparks of light.

From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass by Amy Lowell

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 Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman




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