uprisen

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Behold this forest of uprisen spears,   Symbol of might!

From Nero by Phillips, Stephen

It is scarcely a country at all—only a scrap of coral reef uprisen at the foot of Mexico—Yucatan.

From The Romance of the Reaper by Casson, Herbert Newton

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 DeLeon, T. C.

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 Cowper, William

Indeed such rattle as he rated it, Is it not strange, and passing precedent, That the illustrious chief of Government Should have uprisen with such indecent speed And strenuously replied?

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas