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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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
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
He would be lifted on the hands of men, their plaudits would upbear his soul, and he would at last triumph, sealed by the sanction of his kind.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
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 Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller
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 Mary Elizabeth Parsons
The lions upbearing the throne in the hall of audience were of gold.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
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 Porter Emerson Browne
She spread her arms wide, in indication of the vastness of the upbearing body whereon she sat.
From Paul Faber, Surgeon by George MacDonald
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
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
The ripples hid his forehead; And last, the thick, bright curls a moment floated, So warm and silky that the stream upbore them, Closing reluctant as he sank forever.
From Mosaics of Grecian History by Marcius Willson
Similarly Milton's angels marched above the ground and “the passive air upbore their nimble tread.”
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
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
Some people love to garner up and cherish mementos of the dead; and dead enough are the tremulous flutterings they then upbore.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
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 went to Vienna, upborne by a boundless hope! it gave me courage to face the strange country, to face every difficulty in my way to reach the ear of Majesty....
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
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
No frigid clime congeals The fervid blood that riots in thy veins; No torrid sun thine upborne nature feels— The North, the South, alike are thy domains.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various
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
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