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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In wreaths of smoke, blown waywardwise, Faces of olden days uprise, And in his dreamers revery They haunt the smoker's brain, and he Breathes for the past regretful sighs.
From Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry by Various
The boundlessness and elasticity of the mind, its power of self-recovery, uprise from temporary obstructions self-imposed, or from temperament, are assurances made doubly sure of our soul's infinitude and longevity.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
Each stubble-field whence uprises the lark supplies music to his ears.
From Famous European Artists by Sarah K. Bolton
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:--And her children?--Yes:
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
Phoenix-like, he uprises with it from that chaos of arms and legs.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
So when a sorcerer casts spiced herbs upon the flame, and scented vapour uprises, and in the vapour images appear.
From If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
Proudly uprises in the middle of the square the tall pillar—an immense trophy covered with plates of bronze from the monster crucible in which the captured cannon of the Austrians were melted down.
From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea
And when at last, among the oaks, we came Upon the top, a perfect voice Thrilled in the air like flame— Was it uprisen death we heard?
From The New World by Witter Bynner
Then all at once, the whole dream-world vanishes, like uprisen ghosts at the crowing of the cock.
From Memories A Story of German Love by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
He had heard the remarkable speech of his friend, Mr. Gladstone, in the Oxford Union, against the Reform Bill, and had written home regarding him, that "a man had uprisen in Israel."
From The Grand Old Man by Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook
When he wrote it was a sentence of singular construction, truly indicative of how vague awe and dread had uprisen to take large standing beside simple humane solicitude.
From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman
The whole town had uprisen as one man and demanded a dress-suit.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Hilton, 57, was born in London to parents who fled conflict in their native Hungary during the 1956 uprising against the Soviet-controlled communist government and later anglicized their surname, Hircsák, to Hilton.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
My first glimpse of an uprising in District 8.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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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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Red-faced with shame and anger, he uprose, turned a bitter blast on his opposite number, British Minister of Information Brendan Bracken.
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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When word got around that little Butch was going to North Africa, men uprose on Capitol Hill to thunder: "Political generals!"
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I here take the opportunity of remarking that, in the last stanza but one, and sixth line, "upon" is a misprint for "uprose."
From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
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