29 examples of uprearing in sentences

The guiding standard was on high upreared, Where twining snakes the tortoises embrace, While oxtails, crest-like, did the staff's top grace.

Hard was the work we had at Seay to do, But Shaou's great earl the city soon upreared.

My hen's rich nest through long grass scarce espied; The cowslip-gathering in June's dewy prime; The swans that with white chests upreared in pride 215 Rushing and racing came to meet me at the water-side!

She prayed, her withered hand uprearing, While Harry held her by the arm "God! who art never out of hearing, O may he never more be warm!" 100 The cold, cold moon above her head, Thus on her knees did Goody pray; Young Harry heard what she had said: And icy cold he turned away.

Each time as the bear upreared, the stout limb descended, but apparently with slight effect, and with each rush and tearing down of matted snow and twigs, the angle of ascent was lessening perceptibly.

He rushed up close to the fencing Hayes, and as the beast in the pit upreared himself head and shoulders, managed to discharge one barrel of the shotgun.

60 The Tyrians drop their vessels in their fright, All pale and trembling at the hideous sight Spire above spire upreared in air he stood, And gazing round him, overlooked the wood: Then floating on the ground, in circles rolled; Then leaped upon them in a mighty fold.

Next unto this a statelie Towre appeared, 505 Built all of richest stone that might bee found, And nigh unto the heavens in height upreared, But placed on a plot of sandie ground: Not that great towre which is so much renownd For tongues confusion in Holie Writ, 510 King Ninus worke, might be compar'd to it.

Where the fond Ape, himselfe uprearing by Upon his tiptoes, stalketh stately by, As if he were some great magnifico, 665 And boldlie doth amongst the boldest go; And his man Reynold, with fine counterfesaunce, [Counterfesaunce, counterfeiting.] Supports his credite and his countenaunce.

" [* Areade, explain.] Then sighing sore, "Daphne thou knew'st," quoth he; "She now is dead": no more endur'd to say, But fell to ground for great extremitie; 185 That I, beholding it, with deepe dismay Was much apald, and, lightly him uprearing, Revoked life, that would have fled away, All were my selfe through grief in deadly drearing*.

He, Lord everlasting, Established of old the source of all wonders: Creator all-holy, He hung the bright heaven, A roof high upreared, o'er the children of men; The King of mankind then created for mortals The world in its beauty, the earth spread beneath them, He, Lord everlasting, omnipotent God.

with backs upreared their coils unbend, Extend their ravenous jaws with a loud roar That harshly comes from mouths of clotted gore.

Those snow-white cones, uprearing their sharp spires, and spreading out their broad baseswhat could they be but an encampment of monster tents?

On its flat roof the forms of a dozen or more glazed skylights upreared themselves jauntily.

II When France in wrath her giant-limbs upreared,

There was something very earnest in her gaze, as she lifted her eyes, wide and beautiful with the wonder in them, to the face of granite upreared before her, and then turned slowly to look across and up the valley, where other and yet grander mountain ramparts thrust their great forbiddance on the reaching vision.

The pyramid of pride and prejudice which slavery had upreared there, must soon crumble in the dust.

The pyramid of pride and prejudice which slavery had upreared there, must soon crumble in the dust.

So passed they, fearless, where the parted wave, With cloven crest uprearing from the sand, A solemn aisle before,behind, a grave, Rolled to the beckoning of Jehovah's hand.

On five pillars of massive stone is upreared a sixth, of huge and formidable bulk, and carrying even to us in our day a sense of mystery and might.

This the hill Of Ares, seat of Amazons, their tent, What time 'gainst Theseus, breathing hate, they came, Waging fierce battle, and their towers upreared, A counter-fortress to Acropolis; To Ares they did sacrifice, and

She was an elfin pinnace; lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake, And, as I rose upon the stroke, my boat 375 Went heaving through the water like a swan; When, from behind that craggy steep till then The horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge, As if with voluntary power instinct Upreared its head.

The lonely watcher feels an awe Of Nature's sway, As when appearing, He marked their flashed uprearing In the cold gloom Retreatings and advancings, (Like dallyings of doom), Transitions and enhancings, And bloody ray.

And slowly as we heard you, day by day, The stillness of enchanted reveries Bound brain and spirit and half-closèd eyes, In some divine sweet wonder-dream astray; To us no sorrow or upreared dismay

Like one spell-bound Caught in the presence of some god, I stood, Nor felt the keen wind and the deadly air, But watched the sun go down, and watched the gold Fade from the town and the withdrawing hills, Their westward shapes athwart the dusky red Freeze into sapphire, saw the arc of rose Rise ever higher in the violet east, Above the frore front of the uprearing night Remorsefully soft and sweet.

29 examples of  uprearing  in sentences