upbuild
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The imagination has oft painted Howard University as a temple—a temple of knowledge,—a temple for the teaching of justice; a temple for the upbuild of mankind.
From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore
His rude and venturesome life, his simple-minded love for the commonwealth he helped to upbuild, his contempt for rewards and praise, his extreme and sturdy independence, and the great services he had rendered the state.
From Roads of Destiny by Henry, O.
This was doubtless due to his own punctiliousness and thorough devotion to system as well as to his often baffled wish to diversify his crops and upbuild his fields.
From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell
The magic-like upbuild of the cantonment, moreover, was the signal for the extension of the electric line to encircle the very center of the big military city, thus adding an additional link of convenience.
From The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces by Bachman, William Elmer
The waves upbuild the wasting shore: Where mountains towered the billows sweep: Yet still their borrowed spoils restore And raise new empires from the deep.
From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Brown, E. E.
“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
Job's Daughters, aged 13 to 20, "band together girls for spiritual and moral upbuilding, to teach love of country and flag . . . home, parents and elders."
From Time Magazine Archive
The notion of the upbuilding of the personality here briefly given is of use, I think, in suggesting its practical tendencies to dissolution.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
"So fancy limns him, who'll not cease To watch o'er what his brain upbuilt," Punch sang.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 by Various
I believe this: If, when we pass into the Unknown, we continue to exist as individual consciousnesses, then we carry with us the heaven and the hell that we have each upbuilt for ourselves.”
From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by Brehm, George
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 Brady, Cyrus Townsend
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 Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
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 Cooke, George Willis
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