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• "In school districts across the nation where student achievement continues to be on the uprise, consistency of the leadership in that school building and the resources that one provides to them is vitally important," Bobb said. —  detnews.com - Local
• At each turn the vista showed a loftier uprise, crest peering above crest, and far beyond, high and snow-touched, the summits of the Sierra. —  The Emigrant Trail
• Probably to this cause we owe in part the fact that in the wrinklings of the crust due to the contraction of the interior the lands exhibit a prevailing tendency to uprise, while the ocean floors sink down. —  Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
• From what depth of human personality does it uprise, whirling, like those primitive passions--sex, hunger, rage, fear--which may be boxed up awhile by the will, but which, once unloosed, sweep the will aside and carry one off like froth in a gale, until physical exhaustion sets in and allows the will to re-assert itself? —  A Poor Man's House
• An' whin de king uprise, all de congregation crowd round li'l' black Mose, an' dey am about leben millium an' a few lift over. —  The Best Ghost Stories

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