It took its rise during the war in 1806, and was brought into existence by a decree; dated from Berlin.

Ian Stone did not take his fellow stuntman's rise to fame well.

Take last year's rise in commodity prices and exchange rate fluctuations.

This brook took its rise in a small lake lying some half a mile behind the beach.

Three hundred yards above the hole the stream took its rise in a spring at the foot of a flat meadow.

No, lovingest, I'm not so dying to take my rise out of you, adored.

You've taken his subsequent rise as a thorn in your side.

I am certain that the Nile must here take its rise.

She describes her conversion as if it had taken its rise in a sudden inspiration from Heaven.

"That heresy took its rise from one Jovinianus, a monk, in our own time, when we were yet young".