uprear

Example Sentences

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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

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

The Whisperer, upon the ruins of the old creeds, would try to uprear a new creed—his own.

From The Orchard of Tears by Rohmer, Sax

Yet might she love me to uprear her state: I, but perhaps she loves some nobler mate.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover

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