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upsurging

adjective as in rising

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He shares Herman Melville's vision of New York as a city of the sea – "your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted around by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs" – and his stories gather into a rousing shanty of fishing-boat chandleries and Fulton Fish Market traders; of skiffs, draggers and dredges; of Long Island bays and Staten Island tide marshes, bushels of littleneck and cherrystone clams, sludge bubbles upsurging in the East River, gulls hunting for fish scraps along Peck Slip.

Per�n quickly consolidated his power by putting his men in control of the upsurging industrial trade unions, long suppressed by the country's ruling clique of landowners.

In the same way, all retailers and many manufacturers were being squeezed by upsurging commodity prices.

Though the masses are more enthusiastic about it, Russia's upsurging interest in sports is as much state-inspired as collective farming.

To hold the opinion that this upsurging of peoples can be met by proletarian-democratic compromises is childish.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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