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Centuries old are the mountains; Their foreheads wrinkled and rifted Helios crowns by day, Pallid Selene by night; From their bosoms uptossed The snows are driven and drifted, Like Tithonus' beard Streaming dishevelled and white.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Unchallenged, glad I trod, a revenant In worlds Edenic longly lost; Or walked in spheres that sing to these, O'er space no light has crossed, Diverse as Hell's mad antiphone uptossed To Heaven's angelic chant.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton

Then, rubbing his head, he mounted slowly on to the box and drove away with an uptossed hand appealing to the universe.

From Beyond the City by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Thrice the length of a grown man's body, in every direction, had the snow been stamped about and uptossed.

From Children of the Frost by London, Jack

There is glory and might in this vital evanescence, this slow glacier-like flow of clothing and revealing matter, this ever uptossed rainbow of tangible humanity.

From Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. by MacDonald, George