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Example sentences for "uprose"

Lexicographically close words:
uproars; uproot; uprooted; uprooting; uproots; uprush; uprushes; ups; upset; upsets
  1. Then uprose Grimhild the wise-wife, and took the cup again; Night-long had she brewed that witch-drink and laboured not in vain.

  2. The folk of the war-wand's forgers wrought never better steel Since first the burg of heaven uprose for man-folk's weal.

  3. Then far away to the South uprose A little feather of snow-white smoke, And we knew that the iron ship of our foes Was steadily steering its course To try the force Of our ribs of oak.

  4. The storm uprose with fearful might; it shook the house in its passing grasp, and I sat by this table, listening to the music wrought out of the thunderous echoes.

  5. THE CLOUD A Cloud scarce larger than a feather Uprose in Love's bright sky one day, But, ah, it grew to stormy weather And shrouded all the sun's bright ray!

  6. With all my hopes (for fears were not, upon that happy day), And never sign of cloud uprose above my sunlit way!

  7. That rite complete, uprose the thoughtful man, And thus his meditated scheme began: "If what I ask your noble minds approve, Ye peers and rivals in the royal love!

  8. For with a flash his life uprose before him.

  9. Straight uprose their commander, and spake from the steps of the altar.

  10. Once more in the darkness uprose the outlines of Notre Dame in all the beauty of Gothic refinement; all the delicate lacework and flying buttresses subdued and dreamlike under the night sky.

  11. Above all, crowning the heights, stretching heavenwards like mighty monsters, uprose the towers of the cathedral and other churches.

  12. From a ground-floor window light streamed out upon the fragments of rubbish strewing the ground, from amid which sickly weeds uprose as if in defiance of nature's laws.

  13. Slimy shapes uprose dim and ghostly from its darkly moving surface.

  14. They watch the main until the refluent waves Ebb from the growing sands; then, on the tide Receding, launch their vessel; thus she floats With twin companions: over each uprose With quivering battlements a lofty tower.

  15. And with the loud crack of wood against wood, and shattered prows, and rocking masts, uprose over the clear water the hideous din of battle.

  16. When his body was found, robbed and terribly wounded, from all over Greece, where he was known and loved, there uprose a great clamour of lamentation.

  17. Last of all uprose Face-of-god and took up the sword and looked at it; and so bright was the blade that he saw in it the image of the golden braveries which the Bride bore, and even some broken image of her face.

  18. And then uprose before me, Upon the water's edge, The huge and haggard shape Of that unknown North Cape, Whose form is like a wedge.

  19. Then far away to the south uprose A little feather of snow-white smoke, And we knew that the iron ship of our foes Was steadily steering its course To try the force Of our ribs of oak.

  20. Round about him were numberless herds of kine, that were grazing Quietly in the meadows, and breathing the vapory freshness That uprose from the river, and spread itself over the landscape.

  21. Then uprose their commander, and spoke from the steps of the altar, Holding aloft in his hands, with its seals, the royal commission.

  22. On the far side uprose the walls of a fort.

  23. Fierce at the word uprose great Tydeus’ son, And the huge bulk of Ajax Telamon.

  24. A fragrant earth smell uprose from the rich soil.

  25. Before Dick had time to reply, Sandy's head uprose behind the counter, twisted around and presented a blood-stained face to his uncle.

  26. Three days the wand'rer roved in vain; Uprose the fatal dawn at last!

  27. Inert she lay in the little tent looking out at the wall of jungle, where it uprose but twenty yards away.

  28. Framed in the portal, uprose a slim figure, seeming like a black silhouette upon a silvern background, or a wondrous statue in ebony.

  29. Not so strange but that it may be true, O my sister, Golden Star,' I said, my wonder for the moment overcome by a new hope that uprose within me at her words.

  30. At that uprose Don Florestan, and said, Don Galvanes, there are better advisers here than I, but if reason fail I will undertake the battle in the name of God.

  31. Then uprose Olivas, and with him all the Errant Knights present.

  32. She shook with sobs, and Glaucon, roused to manhood by her grief, uprose and faced the stern face of Democrates, the blenching faces of the rest.

  33. Themistocles went to his pinnace, and a cheer uprose from sea and land as the boat shot out to the Nausicaä.

  34. From the hill and the quays a shout uprose from the thousands, to be answered by the fleet,—a cheer or a prayer to sea-ruling Poseidon those who gave it hardly knew.

  35. Suddenly over their bows uprose a black mass.

  36. But nearer to the foreground of the mental picture, uprose a left-hand page of his pass book; and its tidings of great joy, written in clerkly hand, served to dispel the cloud.

  37. The walls apparently were hewn from black rock, and at regular intervals, placed some three feet from these gleaming walls, uprose slender golden pillars supporting a kind of fretwork arch which entirely masked the ceiling.

  38. For when he veered them round, And aimed their flying feet to grassy ground, In front uprose that Thing, and turned again The four great coursers, terror-mad.

  39. And I uprose and left him, and in all peace took my path Force to my Chosen, recking light of Pentheus and his wrath.

  40. I seemed crystalized in the flashing heart of a diamond; but from those bottomless depths, I uprose empty handed.

  41. But when uprose the sun, fled clouds, and fled sadness.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uprose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.