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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What shall I say of those fair buildings, which ’tis so wonderful to see the ground among those fens upbear?’
From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley
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 Arthur B. Fuller
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
Gretchen, in the golden cloud, is raised above all past delusions, worthy to redeem and upbear the wise man who stumbled into the pit of error while searching for truth.
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller
If they sometimes subdue, they must finally upbear me, for I seek the Universal—and that must be the best.
From Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller
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
The wide, shimmering plain of sea—its aerial blue, stretching beyond the limits of my vision in one direction, upbearing transverse, cloud-like islands in another, varied and shadowed by shore and sky—mingled its essence with mine.
From The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard
She spread her arms wide, in indication of the vastness of the upbearing body whereon she sat.
From Paul Faber, Surgeon by George MacDonald
He seemed their only hope—the Atlas upbearing all the fates of Athens.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
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
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
Dim and beautiful indeed was the hope that upbore the grave and beautiful Theban maiden; and we shall see her resolution equaled, though hardly surpassed, by Christian Antigones of equal love and surer faith.
From A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
Under such persuasion, the rounded hills which upbore and encompassed Jerusalem took on a coat green as emerald and thick as civet-fur.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
From him escaping, on light wings upborne Th' Athenians seem'd; light wings their limbs upbore!
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
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
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
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 Dorothy Canfield
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