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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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
Lord Falworth had the grim strength of manhood's hard sense to upbear him in sending his son into the world, but the poor lady mother had nothing of that to uphold her.
From Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
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
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
Huge Atlas was Electra's sire, the same Whose shoulders still the starry skies upbear.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
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
The lions upbearing the throne in the hall of audience were of gold.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
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
I was conscious, moreover, of the strong upbearing of my companion's hand that lent wings to my feet.
From When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland
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
One thought, however, upbore Frieda until she was able to withdraw from the dining room.
From The Ranch Girls in Europe by Margaret Vandercook
Yet the effort told, bringing us into quieter water, although we upbore the entire weight of the boat on our shoulders after we made firm footing.
From Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France by Randall Parrish
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
His massive neck upbore a head of Augustan beauty, lighted by eyes that alternately blazed with the pride and resolution of a Cid and softened with the musings of a Manrique.
From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson
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
Perhaps a purer time is near, when, upborne by a sense of the dignity of romance and the sacredness of life, man will refrain from laying rough hands on his mute brothers.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
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
Beneath, the forest lay sleeping in the lustrous sunlight, and now and again from its cool recess would be upborne the soft note of a hoopoe.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
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