uprear
Example Sentences
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Upon the ruins of our present immature civilization it will uprear a charming state of society.
In cloudy height surrounding me, uprear The Rocky Mountains their uncounted heads.
From The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Wilfred S. Skeats
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
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
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 Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
