In primitive ferns, such as Ophioglossum and Botrychium, the spores are borne upon a specialized axis, the fertile spike.
The very earth was said to be borne upon the back of a whale, one whose writhings caused earthquakes and floods.
The eyes, not quite matched, are set far apart in a square and noble head, which feels too heavy with care to be borne upon his shoulders.
Reproductive organs of seed ferns were borne upon the foliage; single ovules and seeds were borne in place of pinnae, while male organs often occurred as compound pollen organs composed of partially or wholly united microsporangia.
I had been borne upon an idea so clear and powerful that it transcended all individual weaknesses.
This was borne in upon me when, just as I was writing the last chapters of the book, about the self and death, my mother unexpectedly died.
The news was a shock, though visible proof that the greatest living British citizen was now 90 years old & painfully frail had been borne in upon all by the birthday photographs in Nov. Until Jan . 19 when an appeal from Lady Churchill caused the well-meaning torture by public affection to stop, the Churchill home in Hyde Park Gate was blocked by a crowd of all kinds of people.
John Updike was still going strong when he died recently at 76, and his almost exact contemporary, Philip Roth, appears to be borne these days upon an extraordinary gust of second wind.
In other words, a comparison of single (or few) realizations across different system sizes is meaningless, as the response of single realizations may be dominated by microstructure fluctuations whereas systematic trends are borne out only upon ensemble averaging.
In some European Celtic or Germanic countries prior to the adoption of Christianity, the ruler upon his election was raised on a shield and, while standing upon it, was borne on the shoulders of several chief men of the nation (or tribe) in a procession around his assembled subjects.
