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  • verb Past participle of upbear

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Examples

  • Perhaps a purer time is near, when, upborne by a sense of the dignity of romance and the sacredness of life, man will refrain from laying rough hands on his mute brothers.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • The stupid lowly, and the humble lowly, only, went down on its knees at the penitent form, admitted its pathological weight and hurt of sin, eliminated and purged all its bafflements, and walked forth again upright under the sun, child-like and pure, upborne by Abel Ah Yo's god's arm around it.

    WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL 2010

  • And so, exalted, upborne by a sense of power, I turned my back on the howling inferno and climbed to the deck, where the fog drifted ghostly through the night and the air was sweet and pure and quiet.

    Chapter 26 2010

  • It struck me that he was joyous, in a ferocious sort of way; that he was glad there was an impending struggle; that he was thrilled and upborne with knowledge that one of the great moments of living, when the tide of life surges up in flood, was upon him.

    Chapter 17 2010

  • As she talks the dim and shadowy figures of great knights on armor, on battle chargers which would have upborne the Norse gods, plunge over them all, through the hall.

    Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

  • Thompson, said Frances Willard, “caught the universal ear and set the key of that mighty orchestra, organized with so much toil and hardship, in which the tender and exalted strain of the Crusade violin still soared aloft, but upborne now by the clanging cornets of science, the deep trombones of legislation, and the thunderous drums of politics and parties.”

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Thompson, said Frances Willard, “caught the universal ear and set the key of that mighty orchestra, organized with so much toil and hardship, in which the tender and exalted strain of the Crusade violin still soared aloft, but upborne now by the clanging cornets of science, the deep trombones of legislation, and the thunderous drums of politics and parties.”

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • And those back parts are upborne by thighs smooth and round and by a calf like a column of pearl, and all this reposeth upon two feet, narrow, slender and pointed like spear-blades,247 the handiwork of the Protector and Requiter, I wonder how, of their littleness, they can sustain what is above them.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

  • Even in the uttermost frenzy of energy is each maenad movement royally, imperially, incedingly upborne.

    Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_ 2005

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