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Uprise   Listen
noun
Uprise  n.  The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising. (R.) "Did ever raven sing so like a lark, That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?"






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"Uprise" Quotes from Famous Books



... I behold those eyes So bright, so crystal-clear, I feel within my own uprise A sympathetic tear; But supper's call one must obey, And so I dash ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 • Various

... grave but light, How fervent fragrances uprise Pure-born from these most rich and ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876. • Various

... again in me; I feel its glow upon my cheek, Its fulness of the heart is mine, As when I leaned to hear thee speak, Or raised my doubtful eye to thine. I hear again thy low replies, I feel thy hand within my own, And timidly again uprise The fringed lids of hazel eyes, With soft brown tresses overblown. Ah! memories of sweet summer eves, Of moonlit wave and willowy way, Of stars and flowers and dewy leaves, And smiles and tones more ...
— Home Life of Great Authors • Hattie Tyng Griswold

... change took place in the character of the whirlpool. The slope of the sides of the vast funnel became momently less and less steep. The gyrations of the whirl grew gradually less and less violent. By degrees the froth and the rainbow disappeared, and the bottom of the gulf seemed slowly to uprise. The sky was clear, the winds had gone down, and the full moon was setting radiantly in the west, when I found myself on the surface of the ocean, in full view of the shores of Lofoden, and above the spot where the pool of the ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester



Words linked to "Uprise" :   develop, climb, return, fall, go to bed, go, spring up, mount, originate, arise, come, grow, get up, move up, scend, chandelle, bristle, soar up, climb up, sit down, uranology, ascend, rocket, resurge, turn in, turn out, lift, well up, lie down, go up, come up, take the floor, emerge, skyrocket, travel, soar, surge, move, soar upwards, swell, upraise, set



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