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 Noyes, Alfred
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 Fuller, Margaret
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 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
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 Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Fuller, Margaret
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 Fuller, Margaret
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 Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)
He seemed their only hope—the Atlas upbearing all the fates of Athens.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
The lions upbearing the throne in the hall of audience were of gold.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
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 Fuller, Arthur B.
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
By my granite shape of yore Passed the priests, with stately pschent, And the mystic boat upbore, Emblemed and magnificent.
From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Lee, Agnes
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 Bronson, Edgar Beecher
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
So clad, godlike Achilles trial made If his arms fitted him, and gave free scope465 To his proportion'd limbs; buoyant they proved As wings, and high upbore his airy tread.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
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
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
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 Franzos, Karl Emil
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 Foote, Allen Ripley
With sacred motion swells her conscious breast; Nor are the poles upborne by airs more blest.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
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