How To Use Upheave In A Sentence
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It shows there canât be any snow in Rome because otherwise it would buckle and upheave the street, it shows this, it shows that.
Patrick Rothfuss: „There will be sex“ « Memesis Virtualis
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The present period is most undoubtedly the period of the cetaceans; and the future geologist who goes hunting for dry bones among the ooze of the Atlantic, now known to us only by the scanty dredgings of our 'Alerts' and 'Challengers,' but then upheaved into snow-clad Alps or vine-covered Apennines, will doubtless stand aghast at the huge skeletons of our whales and our razorbacks, and will mutter to himself in awe-struck astonishment, in the exact words of my friend at South Kensington, 'Things used all to be so very big in those days, usedn't they?'
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
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[T] here are many examples of the sublime which are independent of passion, such as the daring words of Homer with regard to the Aloadae, to take one out of numberless instances, "Yea, Ossa in fury they strove to upheave on Olympus on high,/With forest-clad Pelion above, that thence they might step to the sky.
On the Sublime
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Accordingly we all left the house after breakfast, following the track marked (H), which led us precipitously down, till we landed on the surface of the large crater, an immense sheet of scoriaceous lava cooled suddenly from a state of fusion; the upheaved waves and deep hollows evidencing that congelation has taken place before the mighty agitation has subsided.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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The violent volcanic forces upheaved the land of the whole area.
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The erupted rocks which have broken through and upheaved these strata have been elevated from depths that are wholly inaccessible to our research; they must, therefore, have existed under the silurian strata, and been composed of the same association of minerals which we term granite, augite, and quartzose porphyry, when they are made known to us by eruption through the surface.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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It was a tremendous leap, and so nearly beyond the compass of Kettle's powers that he was scarcely able to retain his foothold, but stood for a moment on the edge of the vessel with shield and sword upheaved, as he staggered to regain his balance.
Erling the Bold
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The present period is most undoubtedly the period of the cetaceans; and the future geologist who goes hunting for dry bones among the ooze of the Atlantic, now known to us only by the scanty dredgings of our 'Alerts' and 'Challengers,' but then upheaved into snow-clad Alps or vine-covered Apennines, will doubtless stand aghast at the huge skeletons of our whales and our razorbacks, and will mutter to himself in awe-struck astonishment, in the exact words of my friend at South Kensington, 'Things used all to be so very big in those days, usedn't they?'
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
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They saw what had happened, however, and beheld the barbarian set his foot on their companion, and brandish high his formidable weapon, the whistling sound of which made the old arch ring ominously, while he paused an instant, with his weapon upheaved, ere he gave the finishing blow to his enemy.
Count Robert of Paris
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All hands held on while the hull upheaved and smashed down on the brittle coral and the warm seas swept over them.
A SON OF THE SUN
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And your hesitant heart flutters, not wanting to upheave.
Tamsin Rothschild: My Life and Poetry
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In this case, when I have really needed to mobilize myself in times of challenge or fear, I have found myself repeating "Your hesitant heart flutters, not wanting to upheave.
Tamsin Rothschild: My Life and Poetry
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In addition, by applying its algorithmic, datacentric approach to economics, Google had quietly begun a revolution that would transform and upheave the worlds of media and advertising.
In the Plex
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Here again the upheaved slatey rock appeared, with the same dip and direction as in the Sadong River.
The Malay Archipelago
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So much for the western line; in the Portillo pass, proceeding eastward, we meet an immense mass of conglomerate, dipping to the west 45 deg, which rest on micaceous sandstone, etc., etc., upheaved and converted into quartz-rock penetrated by dykes from the very grand mass of protogine (large crystals of quartz, red feldspar, and occasional little chlorite).
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
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And trafficking of the world, upheave existing institutions, and overturn all the social relations of life.
Prager on the 2010 election
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The raw system left behind by the robot provides a basic framework for shelter, infrastructure, and structural stability in an upheaved landscape.
Archive 2006-10-01
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They argue, from the amount of the chippings, that this mass of phonolite was quarried for ages by countless generations of men, and that the mountain top must have been upheaved, and the island inhabited, in a very remote past.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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And beneath this thick canopy the unseen deep would literally "boil as a pot," wildly tempested from below; while from time to time more deeply seated convulsion would upheave sudden to the surface vast tracts of semi-molten rock, soon again to disappear, and from which waves of bulk enormous would roll outwards, to meet in wild conflict with the giant waves of other convulsions, or return to hiss and sputter against the intensely heated and fast foundering mass, whose violent upheaval had first elevated and sent them abroad.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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When Frank was at his creative peak in the mid-fifties, a young Elvis hit with the hammer that was Rock & Roll, knocking Sinatra down several pegs as popular music upheaved huge and fearsome stalagmites around him.
Archive 2009-08-01
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I bought a pc a couple of years back that had “upheave to USB” on the door covering the USB ports. —
Warning: Racially Offensive Furniture - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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God; in fact, "isles" are mountains upheaved from the bed of the sea by volcanic agency; only that he seems here to have passed from unintelligent creatures (Isa 40: 12) to intelligent, as nations and lands, that is, their inhabitants.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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A week later I was in the backyard when I noticed the dirt near Keith's burial place had been upheaved.
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The whole vast plain in which it "towers alone," is covered with the evidences of volcanic action; can it then, in one of those tremendous efforts of nature, which scattered these fragments of rock over so great an extent, have been upheaved from the bed of the earth, and left as a monument of some mighty convulsion?
Life in the Rocky Mountains
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Hereupon a wave like a steep mountain rose aloft in front as though rushing upon them, ever upheaved above the clouds; nor would you say that they could escape grim death, for in its fury it hangs over the middle of the ship, like a cloud, yet it sinks away into calm if it meets with a skilful helmsman.
The Argonautica
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Stripped to a pair of cotton trousers, with a dripping cutlass in one hand and a Colt's revolver in the other, an adventurer at the head of a bunch of dogs as desperate as himself fought his way across the reeking decks of a Chinese junk, to close in single combat with a gigantic one-eyed pirate who stood by the helm with a ring of dead men about him and a great two-handed sword upheaved ....
The Cruise of the Jasper B.
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The fire was thrown to a great height; the fountains and jets all wallowed together; new ones appeared, and danced joyously round the margin, then converging towards the centre they merged into one glowing mass, which upheaved itself pyramidally and disappeared with a vast plunge.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
