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 Arthur Elmore Bostwick
The evening closes in heavy and lowering, and Cam Fell and Widdale Fell uprear their huge forms on the right and left in sullen gloom, and appear the more mountainous.
From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White
"The Whisperer ... would try to uprear a new creed—his own."
From The Orchard of Tears by Sax Rohmer
Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed, There but wild oats and barren darnel spring; For tender violet and narcissus bright Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
From The Bucolics and Eclogues by Virgil
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 Charles C. Hughes
