upbears

Between the dignity which upbears her and the sorrow which crushes her, she is pathetic as a bruised lily.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

Providence, commands that he be honoured and loved wherever the heavens overhang and the earth upbears.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Intellectual Realm upbears the soul, not to fall; the memory of things here bears it downwards to this universe; the intermediate memory dealing with the heavenly sphere holds it there too; and, in all its memory, the thing it has in mind it is and grows to; for this bearing-in-mind must be either intuition [i.e., knowledge with identity] or representation by image: and the imaging in the case of the is not a taking in of something but is vision and condition — so much so, that, in its very sense — sight, it is the lower in the degree in which it penetrates the object.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

"successes" in political or military trickery and the fact that of the military crosses each upbears above a mountain of losses the refrain of the old German song Verdorben -- Gestorben -- Ruined -- Dead.

Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Louis Raemaekers 1912