uprear
Example Sentences
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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 Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
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 Lowell, Amy
You who did with anguish bear me, For the Church you did uprear me: Let your blessing with me dwell.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold
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
He hails The crews, and biddeth them the masts uprear, And stretch the sheets.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
