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 MacKeracher, W. M.
The woods upon his throat shall press, “And weight for wounds shall serve.—The centaur spoke, “Seizing a tree which lay by chance uptorn “By raging Auster; on his valiant foe “The bulk he hurl'd.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
After two previous months of quiet, the whirl-about made me feel very "like an ocean weed uptorn And loose along the world of waters borne."
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth
It may and should from time to time be amended to suit a change of circumstances, but never exposed to the danger of being uptorn.
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)
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