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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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
Up through the waves the Dolphins bound, A hundred bended backs are found, Each one more eager than the rest To upbear the sweet Player on Ocean's breast.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
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 Edward Fairfax Taylor
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
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
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
Then, as a river of fire, they streamed slowly through the Corso, on their way to the Quirinal to thank the Pope, upbearing a banner on which the edict was printed.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
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
The Veni burst forth in an unrestrained upbearing of confident petition: "Keep far our foes; give peace at home"—and the door closed behind Nurse Rosemary.
From The Rosary by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay
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
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
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
In late June its naked shelves and battlements upbore great snow-fields, and its huge rifts or passes—the Gil-i-Shah, nearly 11,700 feet in altitude, and the Pambakal, 11,400—were full of snow.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
One thought, however, upbore Frieda until she was able to withdraw from the dining room.
From The Ranch Girls in Europe by Margaret Vandercook
But me the sea upbore, 580 The flood downlong the tide with the weltering of waters, All onto the Finnland.
From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous
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
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 Bertram Mitford
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
Afar above a flock of rooks soared, winding round and round a geometrical staircase in the air, with outstretched wings like leaves upborne and slowly rotating edge first.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies
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