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- verb Present participle of
upsoar .
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Examples
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"There!" cried the Senator, "is our true national anthem -- the commemoration of national triumph; the grand upsoaring of the victorious American Eagle as it wings its everlasting flight through the blue empyrean away up to the eternal stars!"
The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX James De Mille
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Hearts beat with new pulsations; hopes soared anew; sorrows grew less; life seemed electric, full of love; sharp lines, and irregularities of mind were touched, softened, and toned to harmony under the swelling notes, now soft, sweet, and dulcet; now broad, high, and upsoaring.
Dawn Harriet A. Adams
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Buddhist meditation is rather the upsoaring of the mind which rises from ecstasy to ecstasy until it attains not some sphere where it can live
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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'Why then, if you will, splash and dash and crash through the waves; and I upsoaring, and drinking the while, will watch like Homer's Zeus from some bald-crowned hill or from Heaven-top, while you and your ship are swept along with the wind behind you.'
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894
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Passes_ -- a glorious outburst of light, colour and splendour, impassioned and rushing, the very upsoaring of Apollo's head behind his furious steeds.
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In the glow to which the alternating hot and cold winds of enthusiasm and bereavement had fanned the fiery particle within him, Richard was not only able to understand and enjoy the thought of which the poem was built, but was borne aloft on its sad yet hopeful melodies as upon wings of an upsoaring seraph.
St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864
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In the glow to which the alternating hot and cold winds of enthusiasm and bereavement had fanned the fiery particle within him, Richard was not only able to understand and enjoy the thought of which the poem was built, but was borne aloft on its sad yet hopeful melodies as upon wings of an upsoaring seraph.
St. George and St. Michael Volume I George MacDonald 1864
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The upsoaring mind that else might scale the heavens!
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He to the great might-have-been upsoaring, sublime and ideal,
Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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"He to the great might have been upsoaring, sublime and ideal;
The Germ, Issue #1: Thoughts Toward Nature in Poetry, Literature, and Art Germ: Various Authors 1848
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