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Uprear   Listen
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Uprear  v. t.  To raise; to erect.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Uprear" Quotes from Famous Books



... And, in a Palmer's weeds array'd My hated name and form to shade, I journey'd many a land; No more a lord of rank and birth, 195 But mingled with the dregs of earth. Oft Austin for my reason fear'd, When I would sit, and deeply brood On dark revenge, and deeds of blood, Or wild mad schemes uprear'd. 200 My friend at length fell sick, and said, God would remove him soon: And, while upon his dying bed, He begg'd of me a boon— If e'er my deadliest enemy 205 Beneath my brand should conquer'd lie, Even then my mercy should awake, And spare ...
— Marmion • Sir Walter Scott

... seen. See, brother, see where sweet and bright Those crimson lilies charm the sight, And o'er the flood a radiance throw Fair as the morning's roseate glow. See, Pampa, most divinely sweet, The swan's and mallard's loved retreat, Shows her glad waters bright and clear, Where lotuses their heads uprear From the pure wave, and charm the view With mingled tints of red and blue. Each like the morning's early beams Reflected in the crystal gleams; And bees on their sweet toil intent Weigh down each tender filament. There with gay lawns the wood recedes; There wildfowl sport ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI

... we are seeking lives, eats, and sleeps," quoth my guide, as we paused for a moment to regain our breath. And immediately upon his words, and as if called forth by them, we perceived an unkempt and disheveled head slowly uprear itself through the black gap before us, then hastily disappear again behind the vines it ...
— The Forsaken Inn - A Novel • Anna Katharine Green

... the waste and the fire-blast made them vain. Then he casteth the reins to his brother, and Gunnar praiseth his gift, And springeth aloft to the saddle as the fair sun fails from the lift; And Sigurd looks on the burden that Greyfell doth uprear, The huge king towering upward in the dusky Niblung gear: There sits the eager Gunnar, and his heart desires the deed, And of nought he recketh and thinketh, but a fame-stirred warrior's need; But Greyfell trembleth nothing and ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris

... war uprear'd, And honor call'd her Henry from her charms. He fought, but ah! torn, mangled, blood-besmear'd, Fell, nobly fell, amid his ...
— Poetic Sketches • Thomas Gent



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