uprear
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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 Charles C. Hughes
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 Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
Upon the ruins of our present immature civilization it will uprear a charming state of society.
"The Whisperer ... would try to uprear a new creed—his own."
From The Orchard of Tears by Sax Rohmer
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 Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
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