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rise 1. the appearance of the sun, moon, or other celestial body above the horizon 2. the vertical height of a step or of a flight of stairs 3. the vertical height of a roof above the walls or columns 4. the height of an arch above the impost level 5. Angling the act or instance of fish coming to the surface of the water to take flies, etc. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For the highest clouds cannot rise above two miles, as naturalists agree, at least they were never known to do so in that country. First, it is likely that before the rise of the Ionian epos there existed in Boeotia a purely popular and indigenous poetry of a crude form: it comprised, we may suppose, versified proverbs and precepts relating to life in general, agricultural maxims, weather-lore, and the like. The June rise used to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood float- ing down, and pieces of log rafts -- sometimes a dozen logs together; so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood-yards and the sawmill. |
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