uprear

Example Sentences

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In cloudy height surrounding me, uprear The Rocky Mountains their uncounted heads.

From The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Skeats, Wilfred S.

He hails The crews, and biddeth them the masts uprear, And stretch the sheets.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

Did Something uprear Itself out there in the black fog?

From The Thing from the Lake by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

But, where my palace stood, with the same stone    I will uprear a shady hermitage; And there my spirit shall keep house alone,    Accomplishing its age.

From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

Beyond the lake, rising in mid-air like a great gray wall, are the sheer precipices of Monument Mountain, and in the hazy distance the loftier Taconics uprear their grand Dome in the illimitable blue.

From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)