upbear
Americanverb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of upbear
First recorded in 1250–1300, upbear is from the Middle English word upberen. See up-, bear 1
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The white bones, which my body's wreck outlast, Girdled in flowing black they will upbear, Sprinkle with rare, old wine, and gently cast In bath of snowy milk, with pious care.
From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Williams, Theodore C.
How pleasant is the course along a new river, the sight of new shores! like a life, would but life flow as fast, and upbear us with as full a stream.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.
Gila, in her most imperial mood, wearing a bewildering imported frock whose simple intricacies and daring contrasts were well calculated to upbear a determined spirit in a supreme combat, awaited his coming impatiently.
From The Witness by Lutz, Grace Livingston Hill
Up through the waves the Dolphins bound, A hundred bended backs are found, Each one more eager than the rest To upbear the sweet Player on Ocean's breast.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
Wild River, a little farther down, you may ford almost dry-shod, and in four hours it shall reach such heights and depths as might upbear our mightiest man-of-war.
From Gala-days by Hamilton, Gail
The lions upbearing the throne in the hall of audience were of gold.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
Its slender stems rise from many a mossy bank, upbearing their few delicately slashed, pure-white stars, which seem to shed a gentle radiance about them upon the woodland scene.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
There the swift relief was like an upbearing into another air, charged with more intimate222 largess for life.
From Christmas A Story by Solon, Leon V. (Leon Victor)
From before it one might gaze upon league upon league of sullen sea, stretching to where, far in the dim distance, lay the curve of the horizon upbearing the gray dome of the sky.
From A Fool There Was by Browne, Porter Emerson
The desk, upbearing broken bottles and a cluttered mess of paper, letter and debris of all description, was scratched and dented.
From A Fool There Was by Browne, Porter Emerson
When other actors faltered -and every member of the excellent cast, except Boris Karloff as the judge, was jittered off top form on opening night -Julie upbore them.
From Time Magazine Archive
For e'en as those mysterious Four, Who the bright whirling wheels upbore By Chebar in the fiery blast.
From The Christian Year by Keble, John
Deep and raggedly they drove, impelled by the brief flash of power that upbore their owner.
From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson
It was strange how this purpose upbore and consoled me; for I needed consolation.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
Her earthly birth held her to the earth, but the ocean upbore her, and the breath of God drove her on.
From The Marquis of Lossie by MacDonald, George
The seal of Eton College, dated 1474, attests to the Assumption; in that seal Mary is shown upborne by six angels with the arms of Eton under her feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
I just tried The slippers on, amazed to see them shaped So fairly to my feet, when, all at once, I felt my steps upborne and hurried on Almost as if with wings.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry
He must have been inspired and upborne in this difficult task by the spirit of a true artist.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
The service comes to a close in one great surging chant, upborne on the throbbing waves of the organ notes.
From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy
The Vicarage sits immediately below the pulpit, so that the preacher's eloquence may soar on stronger pinions, upborne by the sight of the nine ugly faces to whom he has given the light of day.
From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda
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