lift
verb (used with object)
to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
unlifting
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a word derived from
lift.
Example Sentences
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At last dawn-lights reddened about the horizon; stars faded out of the uppermost as naturally as if they had been there during the three days of unlifting night.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Elizabeth Miller
He had not spared himself, and had done what he could, but that night he recognized the uselessness of the struggle, as other men have done in the land of unlifting shadow.
From Long Odds by Harold Bindloss
The faint warm fog unlifting, The derelict long-tossed, But now at rest—tho haunted By the death-scenting shark, Whose prey no more undaunted Slips from it, spent and stark.
From Sea Poems by Cale Young Rice
Shall we sorrow that the laughters, left the shadows of the way, And the cares of life unlifting fringed the rosy skies with gray?
From Oklahoma Sunshine by Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin) Miller
Mr. Huntingdon was utterly ignorant of the duties of a nurse; and though he haunted the room like an unlifting shadow, Dr. Arnold and Nellie took entire charge of the patient.
From Macaria by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
