high-raised

What notes, what high-raised strains shall tell my joy?

Ion 2008

What notes, what high-raised strains shall tell my joy?

Ion 2008

Admiral Porter, Incidents of the Civil War, p.204Via a Wordorigins thread about the phrase "I have seen the elephant," interesting in its own right—it's apparently a southwestern expression meaning either 'to see it all, to experience it all' or 'to undergo any disappointment of high-raised expectations,' depending on who you believe.

languagehat.com: 19TH-CENTURY SLANG. 2004

Stoutly stood with his shield high-raised the warrior king, as the worm now coiled together amain: the mailed-one waited.

Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

Stoutly stood with his shield high-raised the warrior king, as the worm now coiled together amain: the mailed-one waited.

Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

Stoutly stood with his shield high-raised the warrior king, as the worm now coiled together amain: the mailed-one waited.

Beowulf 2003

It is the Golden Age of which poets have sung and high-raised seers have told in metaphor!

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

It is the Golden Age of which poets have sung and high-raised seers have told in metaphor!

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

God grant that the high-raised expectations of these loyal and deserted people may not be blasted.

History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States William Horatio Barnes

"Barbara!" said her father with a high-raised voice.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various