upbuild
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He looked upon the limestone masses to the east, and mused upon the ways of Nature, which caused the destruction of myriads of shell-fish to upbuild the marble of the palace.
From The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike by W. H. P. (William Henry Pope) Jarvis
It was a sight that would have delighted the eyes of Hutton; for methinks the quantity of detritus and broken-down strata would not have required, in his mind, many cycles to upbuild a continent.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
These virtues are especially fitted to upbuild and to maintain the feudal order of society.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
For all of these things degrade and do not upbuild mankind.
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
Yet I can only indicate his work, not portray it; tell some of its elements, and then leave them to the moral sympathies of the reader to upbuild.
“The Life of Emile Zola” may be described as memorable, and the sort of picture that is upbuilding for the screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
"As between a lobby in favor of ship building companies and one carried on indirectly by some foreign power against the upbuilding of our merchant marine, I see no moral difference and condemn each."
From Time Magazine Archive
I particularly enjoin upon my sons . . . the duty of preserving . . . the World newspaper to the maintenance and upbuilding of which I have sacrificed my health and strength.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the bypassing of naval recruiting to Selective Service, the gathering of the crafts got harder and the upbuilding of Seabees' war strength to the authorized 210,000 men was threatened.
From Time Magazine Archive
Further again, the bulk of transcontinental railroad traffic must be across the south on snow-free routes, and the upbuilding which in time will follow from this is as yet incalculable.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
We are told by one of them that "she had upbuilt with strenuous pains a resolute virtue," conquering many faults, and gaining a lofty nobleness of spirit.
From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by George Willis Cooke
The sea was thus kept shallow, and at times, especially toward the close of the era, much of the area was upbuilt or raised to low, marshy, coastal plains.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
English blood, which, following after—because Columbus had first shown the way—peopled, saved and upbuilt the whole magnificent northern land that Spain missed and lost.
From The true story of Christopher Columbus, called the Great Admiral by Elbridge Streeter Brooks
One by one the tops of the distant hills began to clear, and with the glass we could discern the bonfire cairns upbuilt here and there for Scotland's evening sacrifice of love and fealty.
From Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Pedrarias lived until his eighty-ninth year, and died in his bed at Panama; which town had been first visited by one of his captains, Tello de Guzman, founded by Espinosa and upbuilt by himself.
From South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure by Cyrus Townsend Brady
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