uprear
Example Sentences
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He seemed to shrink in stature, standing before the other man's uprear of imperious will.
From The Debtor A Novel by William Dodge Stevens
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 James David Gillilan
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 Robert W. (Robert William) Service
Below that came the rapids in their first fury, with scattered cellars into which the flood swept to uprear itself in a second into pyramids of force and foam.
From The Rapids by Alan Sullivan
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 Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
