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Mruvka has been working on the Look for three years and is launching with about $10 million in self-raised investment capital.

From Reuters • Jul. 19, 2010

I regard them as the original inhabitants of this land, self-raised, as they call themselves in their own tongue.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various

An evil direction still survived; and men were not happy, not because they could not, but because they would not rouse themselves to vanquish self-raised obstacles.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Nor him self-raised to Gallia’s throne, Who, rushing with his martial hordes, Cast Europe’s ancient sceptres down, And made his slaves her sov’reign lords.

From A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father by Cooper, William

Sir Jamshedji Jijibhai, an able, self-raised man, was then the acknowledged head of the Parsi community, and was distinguished for his benevolence and enlightened views.

From The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various