uprear
Example Sentences
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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 bluffs uprear and grimly peer far over Dawson town; They see its lights a blaze o' nights and harshly they look down; They mock the plan and plot of man with grim, ironic frown.
From Ballads of a Cheechako by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
Would that thegn and coerl were filled with thy spirit, and the Dane would no longer uprear his raven standard in the land.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster
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
