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uprear

[uhp-reer] / ʌpˈrɪər /




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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.

"The Whisperer ... would try to uprear a new creed—his own."

From The Orchard of Tears by Rohmer, Sax

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

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.

But to uprear the stones of that great circle would be beyond all our art, and much more would it be impossible to-day, to transport them from their distant quarries across the rugged mountains.

From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright




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