uprear
Example Sentences
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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
Did Something uprear Itself out there in the black fog?
From The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
The mighty arms you raise appear Like trunks which elephants uprear, And as you move this mountain-king543 Is glorious with the light you bring.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
"The Whisperer ... would try to uprear a new creed—his own."
From The Orchard of Tears by Sax Rohmer
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
