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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Each hand an Alpine spear 766 Waves, and an oblong shield their stalwart arms upbear.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
Our wings are fancies, incense-borne, That feather-light upbear.
From Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry by Various
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 Pyle, Howard
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 Fuller, Arthur B.
No awning was spread over the square, this evening, and every eye beheld the ascent of the resurrected saints, a wondrous cloud seeming to upbear them upon its billowy whiteness.
From The Mark of the Beast by Watson, Sidney
Donald said no more; but his form as supported by the two men became noticeably heavier, as though it had been suddenly deprived of some upbearing and stimulating force.
From At War with Pontiac The Totem of the Bear by Munroe, Kirk
He seemed their only hope—the Atlas upbearing all the fates of Athens.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
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
It seemed that I stood and watched a world awake, the great night still upbearing me above the flood of the day.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Lee, Gerald Stanley
The lions upbearing the throne in the hall of audience were of gold.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
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
Huge columns of prodigious height upbore the blue ceiling studded with stars like the heavens; innumerable lines of hieroglyphs ascended and descended along the walls between the panels of symbolic frescoes painted in bright colours.
From The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt by Sumichrast, Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de)
And when war was red Around us, friends upbore the gentle dead Home, and dear women's heads about them wound White shrouds, and here they sleep in the old ground Belovèd.
From The Trojan women of Euripides by Euripides
Splinter'd are the columns that upbore The leafy palace, green for aye: The shivered branches whirr and sigh, Yawn the huge trunks with mighty groan, The roots, upriven, creak and moan!
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno
Suddenly o'er me They swept again from their deep ocean bed And in a tumult of delight, and strong As youth, and beautiful as youth, upbore me.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart
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
Then they had no doubt that they could soar or hover in the air, upborne by their wings.
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
For the last few minutes she seemed upborne by some secret thought I could neither fathom nor understand.
From One of My Sons by Green, Anna Katharine
A murmur of waves breaking on the beach was upborne to his ears, as he strode rapidly on through the rimy heather plants and the chill, bracing whiff of the salt sea.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
He seemed to faint, and to be upborne into the upper regions of the sky, where he gave the beauty a rapturous kiss, and then they both paused upon a mountain-side.
From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael
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