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Sentences starting with up

Up this creek we took the men; we went, I daresay, five or six hundred yards up it, which took us nearly half-an-hour to accomplish. [5]
Up come the voyageurs, all laughing, and ahead of them is Luc Pomfrette, with the little bell at his knee. [11]
Up the valley, under a dizzy precipice, nestled the village of Kandersteg, our halting-place for the night. [5]
Up in the tower Dicky had listened intently, and as the speech proceeded his features contracted; once he gripped the arm of Renshaw. [11]
Up to Antwerp toward evening. [4]
Up he shins to the foretop, with his spectacles on, and in a minute down he comes again, looking insulted. [5]
Up to that time, the old man had not spoken once--except to her--or stirred from the bedside. [12]
Up to the time we went out last night the family hadn't heard about Jake Dunlap being murdered. [5]
Up to this time we have submitted to having Mrs. Boinville pushed upon us as ostensibly concerned in these Italian lessons, but the biographer drops her now, of his own accord. [5]
Up to this time this coin had been a wee little gold piece worth about a third of a dollar. [5]

Sentences ending with up

You have kept yourself shut up. [9]
But take down your sign, or never put it up. [3]
It must be your despair that helps you to bear up. [8]
One of their young men had stayed away, and, in endeavoring to overtake them, came to the place where the head was hung up. [5]
Now I know you are jealous, and I can see your eyes flash up. [11]
But I want you again this evening; so, if you feel weak, I shall lock you up. [10]
He lay there writhing with pain and quaking with apprehension, but straining every muscle in frantic efforts to get up. [5]
I wish he wouldn't persist in liking us so; I can't think why he keeps it up. [5]
The brightest man would not be able to supply it with subjects if he had to hunt them up. [5]
With us it would have been "Dry up! [6]

Short sentences using up

I Put up your sword. [10]
Only, hold up your head! [10]
I--" "Put up your hands! [5]
Everything goes up with you. [4]
A great shout went up. [11]
Put up your watch. [9]
Harvard College failed up? [9]
We were eaten up? [5]
Did he wake up? [5]
To give her up? [4]

Sentences containing up two or more times

Now up gets your General Sherman in the middle of the night,--midnight,--and marches up and down between the counters, and waves his arms. [9]
Mandeville, why don't you get up a "centenary" of Socrates, and put up his statue in the Central Park? [4]
He jumped up yelling, and the first thing the light showed was the varmint curled up and ready for another spring. [5]
Nothing in the world affords a newspaper reporter so much satisfaction as gathering up the details of a bloody and mysterious murder and writing them up with aggravating circumstantiality. [5]
They set to work with their hatchets, and were soon creeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shreds and films of cloud moving in a lazy procession far below. [5]
Harris will be with you, head up and tail up, for Nebraska. [7]
Then they looked wistfully up at the pilot house, and finally, little by little, Clay ventured up there, followed diffidently by Washington. [5]
He asked her why she took her, then--why she did not give her up at once; and she answered that it would be inhuman to give her up just in the edge of the winter. [8]
I shoved the whole thing out of my head, and said I would take up wickedness again, which was in my line, being brung up to it, and the other warn't. [5]
The Boyne Works were buying up coal-mines, and this was a contract looking to the purchase of one in Putman County, provided, after a certain period of working, the yield and quality should come up to specifications. [9]

More example sentences with the word up in them

The fact--is, Margaret, you've got a sort of preserve up in Brandon, and you fancy that the world is divided into sheep and goats. [4]
But as to yourself: Those who were born in high places rarely suit us, who have dragged ourselves up from below to a better position. [10]
Must you shut yourself up because you found you couldn't trust everybody? [4]
Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent!--why, I knew you before you had spoken seven words; and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. [5]
If I had yours to put up alongside of them, I believe the combination would bring more souls to earnest reflection and ultimate conviction of their lost condition, than any other kind of warning would. [5]
They tell me you're buildin' a mill up at McChesney's, and I reckon you're as cute as any of 'em. [9]
And your Confederation, your unions are for the skilled workers, whose conditions aren't so bad,--and they're getting better every time you jack up the wages. [9]
If you pull your trunk out six inches from the wall, so that the lid will stay up when you open it, they always shove that trunk back again. [5]
You won't load your soul up with another. [11]
Did you take your saddle up in the tree with you? [5]
You'll dig up your pot of money and take it away with you.... What does it matter to you whether our homes are ruined or not? [2]
Will you perform your old office of escort, and join a party, which we can make up here, to go there to-morrow? [11]
You'd made up your mind to murder somebody this mornin'--I knowed it perfectly well. [5]
And make up your mind that, for once, you have got to take life seriously. [11]
You make up your mind that the earthquake is due; you stand from under, and take hold of something to steady yourself, and the first thing you know you get struck by lightning. [5]
Away up to your left you'll see another thread coming in--that's the Missouri and is a little above St. Louis. [5]
I saved up your last story to read when the numbers should be complete, but before that time arrived some other admirer of yours carried off the papers. [5]
So hold up your head, and whatever liking you may have in your heart for the traitor, tear it out and trample on it. [10]
Then lift up your head again, and look at me. [10]
Old Age.--There, between your eyebrows,--three straight lines running up and down; all the probate courts know that token,--"Old Age, his mark. [6]
To-night Summon up your courage, for there are things which even a man--To make the story short, then: Tonight Wolff Eysvogel and young Vorchtel quarreled, or rather Ulrich irritated your Wolff so cruelly that he drew his sword--" "Wolff! [10]
The stockholders of your corporation, perhaps, are bound to suffer some from the fact that you have taken its life-blood to pay dividends, and the public will demand that it be built up into a normal and healthy condition. [9]
Just hang up your coat on the floor anywhere," Fulkerson went on. [8]
Mr. Noble--"Senator Dilworthy, your bank account shows that up to that day, and even on that very day, you conducted all your financial business through the medium of checks instead of bills, and so kept careful record of every moneyed transaction. [5]
Charles Emerson, the younger brother, who was of the same type, expresses the feeling in his college essay on Friendship, where it is all summed up in the line he quotes:-- "The hand of Douglas is his own. [6]
Although I was young, I was brought up to responsibility. [9]
The world is young up here. [11]
He found the young tinner up there, alone and brooding, and entered into conversation with him. [5]
Perhaps, if such young people will lay the number aside, and take it up ten years, or a little more, from the present time, they may find something in it for their advantage. [6]
Many of these young people will jump up twenty times a day and run to dabble the tips of their fingers in water, after touching the most inoffensive objects. [6]
I advise aimless young men to choose some profession without needless delay, and so get into a good strong current of human affairs, and find themselves bound up in interests with a compact body of their fellow-men. [6]
So the seven young men said one to the other, let us get up and travel. [5]
On seeing the young master, the elder one with frightened look clutched her younger companion by the hand and hid with her behind a birch tree, not stopping to pick up some green plums they had dropped. [2]
At first the young man was awed by the presence of the grizzled gentleman, and he struggled with his language to bring it up to the classic level of the old meteorologist's speech. [11]
I asked the young man in the ticket-office if I could have a sleeping-section, and he answered "No," with a snarl that shrivelled me up like burned leather. [5]
I suppose the Young Lady expressed a nearly universal feeling in her regret at the breaking up of the winter-fireside company. [4]
No one but young Hillyer had been intimate with Flint Buckner; no one had really had a quarrel with him; he had affronted every man who had tried to make up to him, although not quite offensively enough to require bloodshed. [5]
The' 's a young gen'l'm'n up at that school where she go,--so some of 'em tells me, 'n' she loves t' see him 'n' talk wi' him, 'n' she talks about him when she 's asleep sometimes. [6]
Some of them young folks is very artful,--said her mother,--and there is them that would merry Lazarus, if he'd only picked up crumbs enough. [6]
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the World, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it come off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers. [6]
They took the young and the aged, the decrepit and the sick upon their backs and left for tide-water in disorderly procession, the tadpoles following and the bull-frogs bringing up the rear. [5]
I wish, now, you'd waked up when I kissed you--I do, honest. [5]
He thought of you, of course, and Colonel Woodburn, and Beaton, and me at the foot of the table; and Conrad; and I suggested Kendricks: he's such a nice little chap; and the old man himself brought up the idea of Lindau. [8]
I always liked you, Joe, and stood up for you, too. [5]
As I wrote you, he sat up both nights, with Preston--he could not be induced to leave the room. [9]
Well, what think you--" He paused, rose, walked up and down the room, caught his moustache between his teeth once or twice, and seemed buried in thought. [11]
But I, I--If you--" At the same he threw up his hands and gave a dull, painful cry. [10]
I didn't think you would be up in racing matters. [11]
I will drive you with pleasure up and down behind the grove for a little while. [10]
It meant, do you wish to go up there? [5]
Who knows what you will find up in the midst of all the muddle yonder? [10]
I dare say you will betray me to my father--" But Arsinoe did not finish her sentence, for Selene looked up at her with a mixture of suffering and alarm, and said: "I cannot be glad--I am in too much pain. [10]
Yes, those among you who have not been in the penitentiary, if such there be, are better than your fathers and grandfathers were; but is that any sufficient reason, for getting up annual dinners and celebrating you? [5]
I 'll tell you what,--the Master said,--I know something about these young fellows that come home with their heads full of "science," as they call it, and stick up their signs to tell people they know how to cure their headaches and stomach-aches. [6]
I knew that you were not mixed up in politics, but I also knew that you were an intimate friend of Jethro's, and I thought that you had been let into the secret of the woodchuck session. [9]
When he came, you were for tying him up in one little corner of this island--the hottest part, I know, near to Kingston, where it averages ninety degrees in the shade at any time of the year. [11]
The first thing you want in a new country, is a patent office; then work up your school system; and after that, out with your paper. [5]
We can put you up, Mr. Mallow," said the old man. [11]
Mrs. Mandel hold you up to the proprieties pretty strictly? [8]
Then what are you up to now? [2]
Anything that keeps you up till three o'clock in the morning has some penitential quality. [4]
An' Oldrin' brought you up the innocentest of the innocent. [13]
I haven't brought you up for nothing. [9]
I ain't forcing you to take the money, sir," he flared up, all at once. [9]
Your company orders you to come here and rudely break up an innocent amusement, and furnishes you no way to enforce the order! [5]
It would take you thirty years to guess, and even then you would have to give it up, I believe. [5]
Then I tell you there is a general heaving up of old graves and kicking over of old monuments, and scampering of old skeletons for the trees! [5]
For instance, do you suppose that I should ever have got into notice if I had waited to be hunted up and pushed forward by older men? [7]
I ain't seen you since that highfalutin party up to Crewe's. [9]
Tomorrow morning early you shall receive twelve Attic talents in gold, and, with the help of my son, later in the day I will take up the picture, pack it, and when it grows dark, carry it away. [10]
As long as you run across Englishmen born this side of three hundred years ago, you are all right; but the minute you get back of Elizabeth's time the language begins to fog up, and the further back you go the foggier it gets. [5]
And they say you put up a notice sudden like, without asking them, that there'd be two long shifts instead of three eight-hour ones. [9]
I don't want you mixed up in the mess. [11]
Darius, what have you made up your mind to do? [10]
Own up that you like--a little variety in life. [9]
Now, then, do you know what the margins would foot up, to buy it at sixty days? [5]
I have disturbed you in grave studies no doubt; what is the book you are rolling up, fair Zoe? [10]
Of course, if you heard it, you know my belief is that the total climatic influences here are getting up a number of new patterns of humanity, some of which are not an improvement on the old model. [6]
That is what you have to expect if you invent anything that puts an old machine out of fashion, or solve a problem that has puzzled all the world up to your time. [6]
Take back what you have said, or we must deliver you up to punishment. [5]
But first, as you have promise just now, you must give up dese poor men, who have fight for what dey tink is right. [11]
I imagine what you have gone through," and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. [2]
Do you think you have anything to say about the use of my money, scraped up in forty years in Ingy? [4]
When they release you from prison, innocent and acquitted, cross the ocean and set up your tent under the Stars and Stripes. [11]
Come now, didn't you first make up your mind to go to Slow Down Ranch--to Orlando? [11]
What's the reason you couldn't get us up a paper on the strike? [8]
Yes, sah; an' you can jes' call for anything you want, and dish yer whole railroad'll be turned wrong end up an' inside out for to get it for you. [5]
In the daytime you can hitch it up against the wall, out of the way--and then you have a big unencumbered and most comfortable room to spread out in. [5]
And then--and then you can hear a wild laugh come out of the land, come up from the sea, come down from the sky--all waiting, waiting for something! [11]
Night and day you can find him pegging away at Smith, panting with his labor, sleeves rolled up, countenance all alive with enjoyment. [5]
Is it possible you can answer up, right off, and tell what anybody on the other side of the earth is doing, and yet can't tell what a person is doing who isn't three yards from you? [5]
If nothing'll do you but a disturbance, out with it like a man ('ic)--but don't rake up old bygones and fling'em in the teeth of a passel of people that wants to be peaceable if they could git a chance. [5]
Dyer had wanted you brought up the vilest of the vile! [13]
And then, when you brought me to him that morning and he got up and treated me like a lady, I just couldn't stand it. [9]
Speak up, man; you are forgiven for deserting us. [9]
You know what you are about; and when you are grown up and a suitor comes he will go to a good market. [10]
I move that you appoint Jack Halliday to get up there and auction off that sack of gilt twenty-dollar pieces, and give the result to the right man--the man whom Hadleyburg delights to honour--Edward Richards. [5]
Now without detaining you any longer, I propose that you help me to close up what I am now saying with three rousing cheers for General Grant and the officers and soldiers under his command. [7]
Holgate, the young Yorkshire engineer, pulled himself up to the deck two steps of the ladder at a time. [11]
There be galleons yonder still; they shall cough up doubloons. [11]

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