unprepared

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Balance is everything, riding out time like a helmless sheep-boat, keel to hellward, mast upreared to prick out heaven’s eye.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

But beyond, in mockery, rose the black bulk of Roman Antonia, the majesty of masonry upreared and prostituted to eavesdropping and espionage.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

With excellent precision the tulip bed inside the iron fence upreared its gaudy yellow, white and red, rimmed round with grass, reposedly.

From Sour Grapes A Book of Poems by Williams, William Carlos

Men had made this beauty, imperfect, warring, doubting, suffering, sinning men had upreared this perfect creation.

From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy

Laying the foundation of his massive structure in early manhood, Mr. Spencer has had the rare satisfaction of placing the topmost stone on the building which his brain devised and his hand upreared.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward