uprear
Example Sentences
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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 White, Walter
But to uprear the stones of that great circle would be beyond all our art, and much more would it be impossible to-day, to transport them from their distant quarries across the rugged mountains.
From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright
It is now the twelfth hour of the night, birds of darkness are on the wing, the spectres uprear, the dead walk, the living dream.
From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John
He seemed to shrink in stature, standing before the other man's uprear of imperious will.
From The Debtor A Novel by Stevens, William Dodge
She was the first American woman to uprear the banner of her sex in the matter of independence; she may be said to have been the prototype of all the succeeding upholders of "women's rights."
From Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by Larus, John Rouse
