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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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 Gail Hamilton
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 Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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 Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller
Sandalphon, whose white wings to heaven upbear The weight of human prayer, Stood silent in the still eternal Light Of God, one dreadful night.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Alfred Noyes
If they sometimes subdue, they must finally upbear me, for I seek the universal,—and that must be the best.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
At night, the Corso was illuminated, and many thousands passed through it in a torch-bearing procession, on their way to the Quirinal, to thank the Pope, upbearing a banner on which the edict was printed.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller
There the swift relief was like an upbearing into another air, charged with more intimate222 largess for life.
From Christmas A Story by Leon V. (Leon Victor) Solon
Mr. Purdy once saw, upon a single great mountain-side, ten thousand of these wonderful plants, upbearing their beautiful, pure lilies—a sight outrivaling the poet's vision of the golden daffodils.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
The bier of General Jackson has lately passed, upbearing a golden urn.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
While "Paradise Lost" was thus slowly upbearing its author to the highest heaven of fame, Milton was achieving other titles to renown, one of which he deemed nothing inferior.
From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett
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
So clad, godlike Achilles trial made If his arms fitted him, and gave free scope465 To his proportion'd limbs; buoyant they proved As wings, and high upbore his airy tread.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
It reached from floor to ceiling; the lower parts, black marble, carved into crouching Atlases, with great muscles that upbore the superstructure.
From The Octopus : A story of California by Frank Norris
By my granite shape of yore Passed the priests, with stately pschent, And the mystic boat upbore, Emblemed and magnificent.
From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Agnes Lee
And when war was red Around us, friends upbore the gentle dead Home, and dear women's hands about them wound White shrouds, and here they sleep in the old ground Belovèd.
From The Trojan Women of Euripedes by Euripedes
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
He must have been inspired and upborne in this difficult task by the spirit of a true artist.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
It is the best passages which are quoted, and imitated, and are thus upborne on the tide of ages, while the grosser parts have sunk and perished in the flood.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
This world itself was upborne on the shoulders of Chibchacum, a national Atlas, who now and then eased himself by shifting the burden, and thus caused earthquakes.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
In this manner they descended several hundred feet, and when from the bottom they looked up over the way they had come they felt that they must surely have been upborne by wings.
From Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast by Kirk Munroe
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