upheaves

One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the guilty man calls it remorse; God upheaves the soul as he does the ocean.

Les Miserables 2008

No southerly tempest smites the bark, no long groundswell upheaves her; for a bold point, known as the “Haven-head,” baffles the storm in the offing, while the bulky rollers of a strong spring-tide, that need no wind to urge them, are broken by the shifting of the shore into a tier of white-frilled steps.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Oh, ruler of Olympus, all-powerful king of the gods, great Zeus, it is thou whom I first invoke; protect this chorus; and thou too, Posidon, whose dread trident upheaves at the will of thy anger both the bowels of the earth and the salty waves of the ocean.

The Clouds 2000

Oh, ruler of Olympus, all-powerful king of the gods, great Zeus, it is thou whom I first invoke; protect this chorus; and thou too, Posidon, whose dread trident upheaves at the will of thy anger both the bowels of the earth and the salty waves of the ocean.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

This deed, this breath dilates to the proportions of Spirit, and upheaves the low roof of Time, which is no sky for the soul.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

How noiselessly and gently it upheaves its little way,

Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration Margaret Bird Steinmetz

But, independently of any abstract reasoning drawn from the nature of moral and intelligent beings, FACTS have been elicited in the discussion of the point before us, proving slavery everywhere (especially Southern slavery, maintained by enlightened Protestants of the nineteenth century) replete with torments and horrors -- the direst form of oppression that upheaves itself before the sun.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

For a moment the canoe pauses, steadies herself, then dips her head as the stern upheaves, and down we plunge among more rocks than ever.

The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905

For I wake in the gray dewy covert, while Hebron upheaves

Robert Browning: How to Know Him William Lyon Phelps 1904

How noiselessly and gently it upheaves its little way

Patience 1895