uprise
verb (used without object)
to rise up; get up, as from a lying or sitting posture.
uprises
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pluralof uprise.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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After a time, uprises the everlasting sun; and the mother starts up at the summons of the heavenly dawn with a resurrection of her ancient bloom:--And her children?--Yes:
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
From the center of the building uprises an enormous mass, three, four, five stories high, as high as the cathedral, perhaps higher.
From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by George Wharton Edwards
Then Spring with one warm cloudy finger breaks The frost and the heart's airless black soil shakes; Love grown a man uprises, serious, bright With mind remembering now things dark and light.
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
Nino uprises, scared, he knows not how, The dreams still pale about his burdened brow.
From Among the Millet and Other Poems by Archibald Lampman
From Asia, from the dayspring that uprises, To Bromios ever glorying we came.
From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes
