uprear
Example Sentences
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It is odd how individuality will uprear itself before its own consciousness, in the most adverse circumstances.
From The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Nor a spot More fit to stir the poet's phantasy; Grey Old Man of the Mountain, awfully There, from thy wreath of clouds thou dost uprear Those features grand,—the same eternally!
From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton
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
All hail, ye mountains that uprear Your lordly heights magnificent!
From Canada, My Land and Other Compositions in Verse by W. M. MacKeracher
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
