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Example sentences for "upborne"

Lexicographically close words:
uovo; upas; upbear; upbore; upbraid; upbraided; upbraideth; upbraiding; upbraidings
  1. Some few of gods' lineage have availed, such as Jupiter's gracious favour or virtue's ardour hath upborne to heaven.

  2. She might have flown across the topmost blades of unmown corn and left the tender ears unhurt as she ran; or sped her way over mid sea upborne by the swelling flood, nor dipt her swift feet in the water.

  3. Some will read this list, and will say I am right enough, generally speaking, but that there is an exception, if I could but see it.

  4. As Dante is led by Vergil, so Chaucer is upborne by an eagle.

  5. The reference is to the wonderful mode in which Alexander contrived to soar in the air in a car upborne by four gigantic griffins.

  6. Upborne into the viewless air, It floats a vapour now, Impell'd through regions dense and rare, By all the winds that blow.

  7. Joint-stools were then created; on three legs Upborne they stood.

  8. Why not," suggests the tempter, "descend from the pinnacle of the temple upborne by angels?

  9. She felt herself upborne on waves of religious emotion towards those shining stars.

  10. Historical tragedy without tender sentiment is possible, but it presupposes a public politically awake and an author upborne and inspired by a vigorous national life.

  11. Yet the Queen seems to have had a brief return of happiness--to have been upborne on a sudden tide of youthful joyance, during their autumn stay at Balmoral.

  12. As Harvey passed within its arching portals, he bethought himself sadly of the high hope, now almost dead and gone, that had upborne his heart when last he had passed beneath them.

  13. Thus to the early Greek the heavens were upborne by the mountains, and the sun traversed daily in fiery chariot from east to west.

  14. Darkness and cold were cloven, as through I passed, upborne yet walking too.

  15. He was not upborne by any of that so amazing sense of superiority to the rest of the universe which has aided vain humanity to minimize its defeats.

  16. By fierce denunciation of the sins he has no mind to he can soothe his desire to inflict pain in perfect content, upborne by a consciousness of his own righteousness.

  17. So does man find access to the supreme power; so does he find himself encompassed and upborne by it; so is he drawn into closest union with his fellow-creatures and with the divine source of all.

  18. After them glided Hildegarde and Liutrad with long, easy strokes, while Olvir, his arm still clasped about his little princess, swept her along in the wake of the others like a cluster of thistledown upborne by the breeze.

  19. Christ and the Virgin ascend together in a seated attitude upborne by clouds and surrounded by angels; his arm is round her.

  20. Doth it not through the paths of night unknown, On outspread wings of its own wind upborne Pour rain upon the earth?

  21. It was the time when she absorb'd profound The briny flood, but by a wave upborne I seized the branches fast of the wild-fig.

  22. She floated about the floor for a moment or two like a thistle-down blown hither and thither by the caprice of the wind, scarcely seeming to touch the ground, upborne by the music-tide.

  23. And so, exalted, upborne by a sense of power, I turned my back on the howling inferno and climbed to the deck, where the fog drifted ghostly through the night and the air was sweet and pure and quiet.

  24. We would fain have lingered in the concert-hall to hear the chorus of five thousand voices upborne by the full swell of the mighty organ.

  25. We began to leave umbrellas at home, and to be less susceptible in spirits to the glooming of the dusky canopy upborne by the chimneys.

  26. Her litter was ablaze with candles and laden with flowers; her outsweeping train was upborne by four little pages, and a brass band followed her with unceasing music.

  27. Where Mary, divine in her virginal loveliness, is not upborne among the golden clouds, the radiant-plumed angel kneels on her cottage floor and the wings of the descending dove beat whiteness through the air.


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