1 Among these were the Yankee schoolmarms who had come South imbued with the desire to uplift the Negro and the Scallawags who had been born good Democrats but had turned Republican after the surrender.
2 The aristocracy of Gopher Prairie, even the wives of the rival doctors, took part, and for several days there was community spirit and much uplift.
3 Everywhere Carol heard that the war was going to bring a basic change in psychology, to purify and uplift everything from marital relations to national politics, and she tried to exult in it.
4 But whether the sorrow was too vast to be embodied in music, or music too ethereal to uplift a mortal woe, he soon discovered that the Requiem was beyond him just at present.
5 Some uplift the heavy bier, a melancholy service, and with averted faces in their ancestral fashion hold and thrust in the torch.
6 There remained to her, as she had told him, the uplifting memory of his faith in her; but she had not reached the age when a woman can live on her memories.
7 There was a general uplifting of heads.
8 Immediately, as if the uplifting of the smoke had been prearranged, the discovered troops burst into a rasping yell, and a hundred flames jetted toward the retreating band.
9 It seemed very certain that something was upholding and uplifting him.
10 Enjolras descried a luminous uplifting beneath the gloomy skirts of the future.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS 11 I do not believe that a similar amount of money often could be made go so far in uplifting a whole race.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XII. 12 There was an exciting atmosphere about the place that uplifted her.
13 The mate was in the very act of striking, when another hiss stayed his uplifted arm.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 14 If your bitterest foe were walking straight towards you, with dagger uplifted in broad day, you would not be able to see him, any more than if he were stealing upon you from behind.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View. 15 For according to King Juba, the military elephants of antiquity often hailed the morning with their trunks uplifted in the profoundest silence.