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
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
The white bones, which my body's wreck outlast, Girdled in flowing black they will upbear, Sprinkle with rare, old wine, and gently cast In bath of snowy milk, with pious care.
From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Theodore C. Williams
The heavenly quality of them would upbear the vessel and cargo.
From The Development of Embroidery in America by Candace Wheeler
The heather was pulled, and set together upright as it grew, only much closer, so that the tops made a dense surface, and the many stalks, each weak, a strong upbearing whole.
From Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald
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
She spread her arms wide, in indication of the vastness of the upbearing body whereon she sat.
From Paul Faber, Surgeon by George MacDonald
The lions upbearing the throne in the hall of audience were of gold.
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
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
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 Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Emily Inez Denny
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 Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de) Sumichrast
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
We pursue them with the stern courage of men upborne by the strength of a moral conviction.
From Some of My War Stories A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal legion by Allen Ripley Foote
And now their king, upborne by fame, unto the Gods shall go, Upon whose shrines he vows himself; his name shall live in tale.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
And the chance would be gone, Which her hopes had upborne, For a twelvemonth and some few days more.
From The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook by A. Novice
Rādhā's feet do not touch the ground, but are upborne by lotus flowers that spring up beneath them.
From Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna by Vidy?pati Th?kura
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