upbuild
Americanverb (used with object)
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Oregon was another land to conquer, to settle, and to upbuild.
From Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon by Holman, Frederick Van Voorhies
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
He was a liberal man, ever ready to embark his means in enterprises calculated to upbuild and aid in the progress of Seattle.
From Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Denny, Emily Inez
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.
So the rover was subdued, and love turned loose upon the world to upbuild and to destroy!
From The Soul of the Indian by Eastman, Charles Alexander
“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
I spoke, therefore, for an upbuilding process, not only to preserve the independence and integrity of the judiciary, but to reinforce it and strengthen it as an essential and honored part of our institutions.
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
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
Few turn their steps to what is for the real upbuilding of the country, agriculture, that for which it is best adapted.
From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin
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
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
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 Brooks, Elbridge Streeter
"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
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
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