uptorn
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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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
Long may it stand, Though realms be rent, states shattered, thrones uptorn!
From Vacation Verse by W. M. MacKeracher
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
But what could Typhoeus, and the strong Mimas, or what Porphyrion with his menacing statue; what Rhoetus, and Enceladus, a fierce darter with trees uptorn, avail, though rushing violently against the sounding shield of Pallas?
From The Works of Horace by Horace
But the Big Sandy was now swollen beyond its banks, and the rapid current was filled with floating logs and uptorn trees.
From From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield by Horatio Alger
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