uptorn
Americanverb
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He said he crawled back into the cave and sat with his back against the uptorn roots, and thought.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
The timber here was of farPg 182 finer growth than any I had yet seen, and the numerous oaks and elms lying with uptorn roots betokened the violence of the storms which rage.
From Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels by George Arbuthnot
The black death, man's height and buffalo heavy, Lay dead in the far uptorn pitying forest Where they had battled for their lives.
From The Fire Bird by Gene Stratton-Porter
His large full eyes in anguish rolled, His trembling limbs grew stiff and cold; Then fell he, like a tree uptorn, In woe too grievous to be borne.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
Besides the rains and the earthquakes, the tornadoes are still more dreadful visitants, when the air in a moment grows full of shivered branches, shattered roofs, and uptorn canes.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
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