True to his nature, a Vey bushman rises in the morning to swallow his rice and cassava, and crawls back to his mat which is invariably placed in the sunshine, where he simmers till noontide, when another wife serves him with a second meal.
North of it, a lofty mountain range rises at the distance of ten or fifteen miles, and sweeps eastwardly to the horizon.
The completed task rises before me like a moving panorama whose scenery and background are the ocean and tropics, and whose principal actor combines the astuteness of Fouché with the dexterity of Gil Blas.
Nearly five hundred feet long and over two hundred feet to the ridge line of the roof, it rises high above the buildings of the city in which it stands, a symbol of the supremacy of spiritual over earthly things.
Sweeping round a central newel which forms an open well, it rises the full height of the building.
Of typical Eastern shape, it rises a mass of white against the deep blue of the Indian sky, or shines like silver in the radiance of the Indian moon.
The tide then rises extra high and falls extra low.
It seldom rises above six or seven feet, and tides on islands in mid-ocean have about this value or less.
So far as relative motion is concerned it comes to the same thing; just as when you drop a book you may say either that the earth rises to meet the book, or that the book falls to meet the earth.
As the moon rises at a place on the east shores of the Atlantic, for instance, the waters begin to flow in towards this place, or the tide begins to rise.
It behaves, in fact, very like the bob of a pendulum, which risesagainst gravity at every quarter swing.
Let moral anarchy come if it must, and the evil be consumed in its own flame; out of its ashes the ph[oe]nix always rises again, a nobler bird.
Sometimes it is drowsy, and purrs and murmurs; again it is merry, and sings; or it is sublime, and rises to a thunderous roar.
After a while these cries are turned into a roar of applause, which like real thunder flies from one extreme to another; now it is quiet, now it rises and extends around the whole circus.
Beyond the Missouri, as far as the foot of the Rocky Mountains, the prairie rises continually over enormous expanses; therefore the beasts were easily wearied, and were often tired out.
In truth, cruelty can go no further; but the delight of the public rises now to its zenith.
The horse too tries to raise himself: frequently he rises for a moment, but then a ghastly sight strikes the eye.
All listen to the song, which rises and grows in volume.
But the soldier, who fares simply, sleeps soundly, and rises with the morning star, wakes in an elation of body and spirit without an effort and with scarcely a yawn.
The proper left of this position rests on the rocky, scrub-covered hill of Hlangwani, which rises on the British side of the Tugela.
The straight position in front of Sir Charles Warren ran in two lines along the edge and crest of a plateau which rises steeply two miles from the river, but is approachable by numerous long arêtes and dongas.
Work grows difficult as it goes below a man, quite as rapidly as it does when it rises above him.
Let us suppose that in a country journey we arrive at the summit of a hill, at whose foot lies a charming village imbosomed in trees from the midst of which, rises the white spire of the village church.
The man who rises in the morning, with his feelings all bristling like the quills of a hedge-hog, simply needs to be knocked down.
When two selfish persons meet on opposite sides of a counter, there rises between them a sort of antagonism.
It seems, too, that that kind of human power which can reach down deepest into the infinite littleness, is more remarkable than that which rises highest toward the infinite greatness.
Truth is indeed at the bottom of this well, and not in the artificial wall that rises above it, nor the buckets that go up and down as caprice or selfishness turns the windlass.
Some manly or Christian grace falls upon a young mind, and quickly strikes root and rises into flower and fruit; while the same grace thrown upon an adult mind would fail to reach the soil, through the vices that cumber and choke it.
The memory of other walls rises up before me; even of one with plain white satiny paper bordered by shaded pink ribbon, not merely the stiff paper-hanger's design, but cut out and fixed in its place by a pair of clever hands.
I presume the tide is going down," said Forester; "and if so, we must wait here until it rises again.
Sometimes, in fact, the sea rises so much that the water from the sea flows up into the river, and makes it salt for a considerable distance from its mouth.
But, if the tide is falling, it leaves her to rest more and more upon the sand, and she cannot get off until the water has gone entirely down, and then rises again.
The mountain peaks which seemed to close in all sides are blue grey, and in the centre of this ravinerises a huge, solitary rock, looking just as if it had fallen from heaven.
VI The Hereafter never rises before the thoughtless child (the ignorant), deluded by the glamour of wealth.
A large quantity of fat rises to the surface; this is put aside, and sold to the makers of yellow soap.
Water from the tank circulates thru this pipe as the hot water rises and the cold water falls in the tank.
This is due to the fact that warm air rises and cold air comes in to take its place.
As the air is warmed, it expands and becomes lighter, so rises to the top of the furnace; from here it is conducted to the rooms above.
These trays have to be shifted from time to time, as the moisture from the lower ones rises with the heat to the upper trays, thus retarding their drying.
A maximum thermometer is one in which the mercury rises to register the maximum amount of heat to which it has been subjected.
Here air is heated and rises to the upper part of the room while fresh air from the lower part of the room is drawn thru the jacket.
The solids fall to the bottom as they come into this chamber, and the liquid formed rises to the top and flows into the oxidizing chamber (B, Fig.
The air from the hot register rises to the top of the room, or, if the way is open, to the top of the house.
As the tank fills, the float rises to the top of the tank and shuts off the valve.
On the eastern side of the town rises the imposing Castello del Buon Consiglio, once the residence of the Prince-Bishops but now a barracks for Italian soldiery.
The curtain falls again abruptly at the end of Ezra's memoirs, andrises as abruptly on Nehemiah's memoirs at the beginning of the book which bears his name.
When it is salacious it rises over the hen and turns round three or four times, flapping its wings, then reverses and turns as many times the other way.
In scientific investigations it is permitted to invent any hypothesis, and if it explains various large and independent classes of facts it rises to the rank of a well-grounded theory.
Nearer and nearer to the house it creeps--it is by the window--it rises to look in, and one shudders to think of those inside who suddenly see that looking at them through the window.
Embarrassment rises on their faces--is it a mistake?
The real crux comes when the question risesin a man's own heart, "Does God love me?
As our knowledge of antiquity grows, and we become able to correct our early impressions, the credit of Herodotus rises steadily, and to-day those who study him most closely have the highest opinion of him.
And another thought rises up again and again, "Where will it take me?
This knowledge scarcely rises into consciousness, except in a person who cannot read easily.
The front of the house is to the south; but is screened from the sun by a high hill which risesimmediately from it.
Who, when he rises on our sight, Spite of his failings, shines all bright, With something of an angel-light.
For if she who rises two hours earlier, goes to bed as much earlier at right, no time is saved at all.
We ought to sleep about as much before midnight as after; and she who goes to bed at eight, and rises at four, will be pretty sure to get sleep enough.
The egoist's love risesin selfishness, flows in the bed of selfishness, and empties into selfishness again.
Against competition there rises up the principle of ragamuffin society,--partition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
