Literary notes about rise (AI summary)
The word "rise" functions as a multifaceted verb in literature, serving both literal and metaphorical roles. It can simply command physical movement, as when a character is urged to get out of bed ([1], [2]) or when natural phenomena like the sun or smoke ascend into sight ([3], [4], [5]). At the same time, it conveys more abstract ideas such as the emergence of thought and spirit or the resurgence of hope, much like the moral or intellectual awakening seen when adversity is overcome ([6], [7], [8]). The term also embodies the notion of collective movement or rebellion, illustrating the dynamic force of social and historical change ([9], [10]), and even marks the beginning of a transformative process in both human character and societal evolution ([11], [12]).
- On the fourth day after the birth of my babe, he entered my room suddenly, and commanded me to rise and bring my baby to him.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs - On the fourth morning Mary came into Don Francisco's chamber and told me I must immediately rise, for a lady wanted me in her own chamber.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe - I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth, and as a cloud I covered all the earth: 24:7.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - The clouds cleared away at sun-rise, and the wind becoming more fair, we again made sail and stood nearly up to our course.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana - “I have seen Mont Saint-Michel, that monstrous granite jewel, rise out of the sand at sunrise.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - But our natural man through self-love opposes the voice of conscience and reason, and this gives rise to many brain-racking questions.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving - I shall rise... shall rise... shall rise.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - And they shall mock him and spit on him and scourge him and kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - At once began to rise the cries that were fiercely sad—cries that called through the darkness and cold to one another and answered back.
— from White Fang by Jack London - "Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all."
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves - At the thought her spirits began to rise: it was characteristic of her that one trifling piece of good fortune should give wings to all her hopes.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton