After uplift and deformation, the Plateau was vigorously attacked by various forces of erosion, and the rock materials pried loose or dissolved were eventually carted away to the Gulf of California by the ancestral Colorado River.
Additional upliftand some folding occurred in the Pliocene and Pleistocene Epochs.
Late Cretaceous folding; the second following upliftof the Plateau later in the Tertiary.
So the novel sought to do for society in this age precisely what Lyell and Darwin sought to do for science, that is, to find the truth, and to show how it might be used to uplift humanity.
No telling what he might not think up some day for the uplift of the civilized world.
He had always known that the judge was a firm believer in the uplift of the Boy Scout movement, for he had never failed to assist the Hampton Troop by every means possible.
Certainly no one acquainted with the efforts of our wealthy men to uplift the worthy poor.
No, no," she answered back through her tears, trying hard to catch the uplift of the big cowman.
Marching always onward, our courage each day finds an uplift in accomplishment.
There was a savage joy in battle, and she felt an unholy uplift in having hit hard.
It awaits the next massive uplift of the land and lowering of temperature.
This is our reasoning with which we furnished Abraham against his people: We uplift to grades of wisdom whom we will; Verily thy Lord is Wise, Knowing.
God will uplift those of you who believe, and those to whom "the Knowledge" is given, to lofty grades!
Reference is here made to the Ozark uplift in the southwestern portion of the Prairie plains and the Black Hills of Dakota which rise from the Great plateaus.
Some 20 streams originating in the central portion of the uplift cross Red Valley and escape through notches in its outer wall, about 16 of which are well-defined gateways leading to the encircling plateau.
The streams originating in the central portion of the uplift flowed outward in all directions, and have cut deep narrow gorges through the ridges of hard rock in the base of the truncated dome.
The dotted lines indicate the portion of the uplift removed by erosion.
Then, too, an upliftwhich seems to a casual observer to be a single mountain range, may in reality be highly complex, and no continuous crest-line be discoverable.
Even as our eye did not uplift itself Aloft, being fastened upon earthly things, So justice here has merged it in the earth.
Only from distant points like the Pedro Dome or the summit between Rampart and Glen Gulch does the whole mass and uplift of it come into view with dignity and impressiveness.
August is laughing across the sky, Laughing while paddle, canoe and I, Drift, drift, Where the hills uplift On either side of the current swift.
Some northern sorceress, when day is done, Hovers where cliffs uplift their gaunt grey steeps, Bewitching to vermilion Rosseau's sun, That in a liquid mass of rubies sleeps.
It had been easier for him to uplift his soul to the sun-god, when his teacher, a kind and merry-hearted Egyptian priest, led him to the temple of Pithom.
The young man, of late, had made but rare appearances in the group of which Mrs. Beecher Bain was one of the most indefatigable hostesses, and the Uplift Club the chief medium of expression.
They were addressed to Miss Fosdick, into whose neighbourhood chance had thrown him at a dinner, a year or so later than their encounter at the Uplift Club.
That he should come to town with me to-morrow and go in the evening to hear Howland lecture to the Uplift Club.
VI IT had been arranged that Pellerin, after the meeting of the Uplift Club, should join Bernald at his rooms and spend the night there, instead of returning to Portchester.
They believed the making of a life of more importance than the making of a living, and they grasped every opportunity of those meagre days to broaden and uplift their mental and spiritual vision.
But nevertheless, be he a crank, or a fanatic, or what he may, one thing is sure, the richest milk of human kindness flowed from that heart and devoted itself sincerely to the uplift of humanity.
The questions involved in her uplift are most largely physical questions.
Many pages might be filled with true tales of how Chinese children, won to Christ in early life, have brought blessing and uplift to hundreds in their land.
Besides, if his business has seemed important enough to demand his entire attention, are not the great uplift questions equally worth his exclusive thought?
The Upanishads affect us like poetry; even in Max Muller's translation, which is poor prose, they do not lose altogether their uplift and quality of song.
The uplift was all for him; his by hereditary right; and no pilfering necessary, from alien creed or race.
Fairyland: producing first what there was of mystery and delicacy to uplift mankind in feudal chivalry; then the wonder-note in poetry which has probably been one of the strongest and subtlest antidotes against deathly materialism.
Of great significance in the uplift of the Indians is the recent opening of several schools for training young Christian Indians for leadership in Christian work among their own people.
He felt extraordinarily shy and self-conscious about the performance of a matter that had entered his mind with that surging uplift of his feelings.
You only can feel, know, that the thing will break, that there's an uplift at the bottom of it all.
In the midst of it the king was about to uplift his scepter in sign of choice, but checked himself and said: "But let us be sure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uplift" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
