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Usage examples for rise

1. This rise is said to be 9000 feet in 13 miles. – Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 by E. S. (Eleazer Stillman) Ingalls

2. But our feet must rise, or we fall again. – Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by O. J. Stevenson

3. In a few minutes he heard the Major rise and he turned to meet him. – The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox