"Upraise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and sophistication. The daintiest alternation of iambus and trochee is joined to the serpent's cunning in swiftly tripping dactyls. Probably this artifice is greatly unconscious, the meed of the trained musician; but let no singer think to upraise his voice before the Lord ere he master the axioms of prosody. Imagist ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley
... will of My Father which is in Heaven, the same is My brother, and sister, and mother.' Equally honourable, equally dear, with that mother of His flesh whom you would fain upraise above all other women. And I am likewise disposed to think that word of Paul,—'Yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more'—I say, I am disposed to think this may have his reverse side. Though He hath known ...
— Clare Avery - A Story of the Spanish Armada • Emily Sarah Holt
... then, is what we can do. He who would pass out of this state, and upraise his spirit, in order to taste consolations denied him, will, in my opinion, lose both the one and the other. [3] These consolations being supernatural, and the understanding inactive, the soul is then left desolate and in great aridity. As the foundation of the whole building is humility, ...
— The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus • Teresa of Avila
... Ned might have "hailed" as a "brother")[1] Had just been proclaiming his Donkey's renown For vigor, for spirit, for one thing or other— When, lo! mid his praises the Donkey came down! But how to upraise him?—one shouts, t'other whistles, While Jenky, the Conjuror, wisest of all, Declared that an "over-production of thistles[2]— (Here Ned gave a stare)—was the cause of ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... "Now, up!" cried stout HARCURTIUS, "Up! and we yet shall trap 'em! Kennington calls, and Hackney, with Fulham, too, and Clapham. I hear the cry of Chelsea, Islington North and West Raise wails that find an echo in this mail-covered breast. Bermondsey and Whitechapel upraise a piteous plaint: ('Wy don't our 'eroes wisit hus? We looks and there they ain't!') North Lambeth long neglected, and Wandsworth far South-West, (If I know where these places be I wish I may be blest!) Appeal ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 102, February 6, 1892 • Various
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