uprise
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“Then another horrible incident occurs and the faculty uprise in such a quick manner, like a wildfire,” Tierney said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2018
It is a shameful aspect of the human kind that the nations who uprise against one dictator always choose another one in its place.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2018
"Versace's team knows how to do the look," says Kal Ruttenstein, the fashion director at Bloomingdale's, pointing out that sales of Versace merchandise at his company's stores have been "all on the uprise."
From Time Magazine Archive
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General Praise. 1All, from the sun's uprise, Unto his setting rays, Resound in jubilees, The great Jehovah's praise.
From Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin
Horologes, to chime the hours, and even the quarters, uprise from tables of ebony-and-mother-of-pearl.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 by Various
From Asia, from the dayspring that uprises, To Bromios ever glorying we came.
From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes
From the center of the building uprises an enormous mass, three, four, five stories high, as high as the cathedral, perhaps higher.
From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by George Wharton Edwards
Then from the water-lilies slow uprises The still vast face of all the life I know, Changed now, and full of wonders and surprises, With fire in eyes that once were glazed with snow.
From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier
Then Spring with one warm cloudy finger breaks The frost and the heart's airless black soil shakes; Love grown a man uprises, serious, bright With mind remembering now things dark and light.
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
After a time uprises the everlasting sun; and the mother starts up at the summons of the heavenly dawn, with a resurrection of her ancient bloom.
From Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
Earth like a Swimmer Plunged into the dimmer Wave of the night, Now is uprisen, An Elysian vision Of spray and of light.
From Lundy's Lane and Other Poems by Duncan Campbell Scott
There sitting from the deeps uprisen, he mourn'd20 The vanquished Grecians, and resentment fierce Conceived and wrath against all-ruling Jove.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
It turned out that the Cossacks and the uprisen people were not a match for the Poles, and it was not in the interest of the Tartars to give the Cossacks the fruits of victory.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
For lo! the world's great Shepherd now is born, A blessed Babe, an Infant full of power: After long night uprisen is the morn, Renowning Bethlem in the Saviour.
From Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse by Robert Haven Schauffler
Six millions of people had uprisen and, by a simple declaration of will, had in a few short weeks undone the work of near a century.
From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon
His assignment: to foment an uprising by enslaved workers on a French colony in the Caribbean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
But even “A Different World” hit its limits when it plunged the audience inside the Black folks’ shock and despair after the 1992 Los Angeles uprising.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
The uprising is a sight to behold, and this summer I went to Albania and beheld it.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
And it came about because more than half a century ago, when it appeared that the coast was becoming too privatized and industrialized, a citizen uprising led to the protections we enjoy today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
A familiar modern example is the narrow failure, on July 20, 1944, of the assassination attempt against Hitler and of a simultaneous uprising in Berlin.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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In '55 Disney uprose, Addin' Davy Crockett to the country's woes .
From Time Magazine Archive
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Flushed with the importance of the occasion, Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas, arch-inflationist of Congress, uprose in the Senate last week to open debate on the White House currency bill.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In Washington one evening last week a gaunt, kindly old man uprose before a small group of people, including 20-odd Congressmen, and began to talk softly but zealously.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Thus last week Lord Rothermere uprose to speak for Lord Mottistone's motion to appoint a Cabinet Minister to co-ordinate British defenses against attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Presently, as Sinclair waited anxiously for the return of the pursuers, loud shouting uprose from the direction of the palisade.
From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Ernest G. Henham
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