uprear
Example Sentences
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In cloudy height surrounding me, uprear The Rocky Mountains their uncounted heads.
From The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Skeats, Wilfred S.
Here falls a cold rill drop by drop, and green grass-blades uprear Their heads, and fallen leaves are thick, and locusts prattle here.
From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus
The mountains bear easily the weight of forests they uprear, and at the last and highest, no tree ascends above the snow-line of eternal thought.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore
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
He seemed to shrink in stature, standing before the other man's uprear of imperious will.
From The Debtor A Novel by Stevens, William Dodge
