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Above that, in scarps and blocks upheaved, the rocks strove to fight their heads above the white smother.

His face was turned to the hillside, where a man had just emerged from the woods, and was halting irresolutely before the glaring expanse of upheaved gravel and glistening boulders that stretched between him and the shaded group.

The rent, torn, and dislocated stonework looked worse than before; the upheaved foundations, the piled-up fragments of masonry, the fissures in the torn earth--all were at the worst.

They tore down the breastworks from the walls, and overthrew the battlements; they upheaved the buttresses, which the Achaeans had set in front of the wall in order to support it; when they had pulled these down they made sure of breaking through the wall, but the Danaans still showed no sign of giving ground; they still fenced the battlements with their shields of ox-hide, and hurled their missiles down upon the foe as soon as any came below the wall.

The same story is still more plainly told by faults,--those great cracks along which the strata have been upheaved on one side, or thrown down on the other, to the height or depth of thousands of feet; for since the crust cracked, the surface of the land has been so completely planed down by the action of the sea, that no trace of these vast dislocations is externally visible.

Suddenly the waters around them slowly swelled in broad circles; then quickly upheaved, as if sideways sliding from a submerged berg of ice, swiftly rising to the surface.

Who can avoid wondering at the force which has upheaved these mountains, and even more so at the countless ages which it must have required to have broken through, removed, and levelled whole masses of them?

Along with some of the other characters including Cosette, Valjean's adopted daughter and a student Marius, who Cosette eventually marries, Valjean faces the turmoil upheaved by the French Revolution.

Walking the route taken by fallen soldiers, Mr Gibbs wrote: "To us who have followed this war in body and in spirit, those upheaved and mangled fields are sacred ground, strewn with the graves of our men who fell there.

Augustus Hare, for instance, described it as "split and shivered at the back by the first bomb, from which he [Alexander II] so miraculously escaped; the place of the absent servant shattered; the cushions upheaved or thrown down." (55) By remarkable coincidence, or perhaps owing to plagiarism, Curtis Guild used similar wording when he wrote about the carriage.

at 385 (claiming Internet upheaved public debate process and how public officials participate in politics).