Where the uplift has extended over wide spaces, without appreciable deformation of the crust, the flat strata have given rise to low plains, or if the amount of uprise has been great enough, to high plains, plateaux or tablelands.
He cites in his Geography a number of examples of widespread as well as local sinkings of land, and alludes also to the uprise of the sea-bottom.
Full time to mend as well as mar: why wait The slow and sober uprise all around O' the building?
I wait and watch: before my eyes Methinks the night grows thin and gray; I wait and watch the eastern skies To see the golden spears uprise Beneath the oriflamme of day!
I hear again thy low replies, I feel thy arm within my own, And timidly again uprise The fringed lids of hazel eyes, With soft brown tresses overblown.
There let our banners droop and flow, The stars uprise and fall; Our roll of martyrs, sad and slow, Let sighing breezes call.
The sporadic brilliancy of the ancient Arab kingdoms gave place to a social and political lethargy, the continuation of which for many centuries made the uprise of Saracenic empires seem a miracle to a world ignorant of the Arab past.
The South Arabians--the older branch--were settled in the south-western part of the peninsula centuries before the uprise of the Ishmaelites.
Thus did I myself see him yester-night, Uprise from the bosom of the sea.
Like shadows black the houses Uprise in long array.
Never, my liege, if you permit, will I uprise from hence till you have granted me the boon I ask.
Over the sea the ascent is accomplished by the simple diffusion of the vapour or by the uprise through the aërial shaft, such as that near the equator or over the centres of the whirling storms.
The uprise of an idea, perception of a principle, makes many one and inseparable.
Of spirit grave yet light, How fervent fragrancesuprise Pure-born from these most rich and yet most white Virginities!
Paris, 1919 VI Two black deer uprise In ghostly silhouette Against the frozen skies, Against the snowy meadow; The moonlight weaves a net Of silver and of shadow.
It is important to notice that this great uprise of the land and the series of disturbances it entails differ from those which we summed up in the phrase Permian Revolution.
As they mounted the pending wall of this immense amphitheater, Helen watched the sublime uprise of the king of light issuing from behind the opposite citadel of rocks, and borne aloft on a throne of clouds that swam in floating gold.
At the fall of Dunbar, when he again founded his uprise on the ruins of his country, as soon as he had repeated his oaths of fidelity to Edward, he hastened to Thirlestane, to throw himself a second time at the feet of Lady Helen.
The shades of night vanished before the bright uprise of the king of day, and with them her slumbers.
And should your maiden heart uprise Against fain ears and full-fain eyes, Upon your lips, that cannot err, I set my kiss-interpreter!
Ah, now I pause and fear-- How shall uprisemy lonely, separate prayer?
Nor any fabled buds of genie’s ground Are sweeter in their immortality; When thou art near, like notes of happy birds, My thoughts uprise in songs that need no words.
