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Sentences starting with upper

Upper right, at the end of the wall, is a glass door looking out on the lawn. [9]

Sentences ending with upper

In some tropical species the lower surface is even more brilliantly coloured than the upper. [1]
The lower figure is more reduced than the upper. [1]
Verily, one must have seen the under side of life to know the upper! [9]
Thus the middle class is constantly recruited from the upper. [4]
He was followed by Dunning, in a still more inflammatory mood, until it seemed as if all the King's friends in the Lower House must desert their confederates in the Upper. [9]

More example sentences with the word upper in them

I judged from your remark about the diligence and industry of the high Parisian upper crust that it would have some point, but really I had no idea what a gold-mine I had struck. [5]
With him it would either be the sewer or the sycamore-tree of Zaccheus; either the little upper chamber among the saints or eating husks with the swine. [11]
The Mayor's polite words had caused the long, clean-shaven upper lip of the old man with the look of a debauched prophet, to lengthen surlily; and he noticed that a wide, flat foot in a big knee-boot, inside trousers too short, tapped the ground impatiently. [11]
There was a wooden box of sand, sprinkled with cigar stubs and "old soldiers," and a stove with a door hanging by its upper hinge. [5]
This was done with the upper portion of her body bending very far forward. [10]
Ruth advanced, and with a not very steady hand lifted the white covering from the upper part of the figure and turned it down. [5]
The Widow smiled with a feeling of triumph at having overcome her difficulties and arranged her party,--arose and stood before her glass, three-quarters front, one-quarter profile, so as to show the whites of the eyes and the down of the upper lip. [6]
The young fellow, who usually had behaved no worse than the other Ephebi, had always returned from such festivities with a flushed face and unsteady steps, but to-night he had not even reached his room in the upper story. [10]
All the shots which just missed the top of the rampart cut into the dead wall pretty much in a straight line, and at length cut right through and brought the upper story tumbling down. [5]
The room in which he was sitting was spacious and cool; the lower part of the walls was lined with earthenware tiles, the upper half plastered and painted. [10]
The upper gallery which encircles the inner sweep of the dome is two hundred and forty feet above the floor of the church--very few steeples in America could reach up to it. [5]
The big house where they lived was old, solid, picturesque the lower part built of logs, the upper of rough clapboards, with vines growing up the outside stone chimneys. [13]
Do you see where the line fringes out at the upper end and begins to fade away? [5]
If it's daytime when you strike it, bulge right on, straight west from the upper part of the Florida coast, and in an hour and three quarters you'll hit the mouth of the Mississippi--at the speed that I'm going to send you. [5]
At the moment when these ambitious plans had reached the highest point of imagination, the upper half of the door beside him opened suddenly, and he heard men's voices. [11]
He lies in Westminster Abbey, it is true, but he would probably have preferred the upper side of his own hearth-stone to the under side of the slab which covers him. [6]
Then, as we were setting out for Castle Howard, came the news of your death on the road to Upper Marlboro. [9]
The upper windows were safe, however: the shots did not range so high. [11]
Its precipitous sides were powdered over with snow, and the upper half hidden in thick clouds which now and then dissolved to cobweb films and gave brief glimpses of the imposing tower as through a veil. [5]
Everywhere dead men were lying outside the second fence--not plainly visible, but still visible; and we counted fifteen of those pathetic statues--dead knights standing with their hands on the upper wire. [5]
The most costly were covered with fine red linen, wound about with strings of beads and gold ornaments, and with the name of the dead painted on the upper side. [10]
The upper branches were alive with these industrious toilers, and Big Tom was always on the alert to discover and mark a bee-gum, which he could visit afterwards. [4]
Under this pressure We thinned the line on the upper Potomac, until yesterday it was broken with heavy loss to us, and General Banks put in great peril, out of which he is not yet extricated, and may be actually captured. [7]
It's a considerable ways to the upper end of the town. [5]
We found the way without any trouble, reached there before sundown, played three games of cribbage, borrowed a dug-out and pulled back six miles to the upper camp. [5]
They wound this way and that, far down into the secret depths of the cave, made another mark, and branched off in search of novelties to tell the upper world about. [5]
But as it was, in the upper room where Louise sat all day looking out over the prairie, and on the prairie where business carried Orlando from ranch to ranch on this perfect day, no recreant thought or feeling existed. [11]
His first effort was to get an upper clerkship in one of the departments, where his Oxford education could come into play and do him service. [5]
The first prophet was the high-priest of the House of Seti, and at the same time the superior of all the thousands of upper and under servants of the divinities which belonged to the City of the Dead of Thebes. [10]
This double window was in the upper part of the Council chamber, which occupied two stories. [10]
The long table was divided into upper and lower messes by a huge salt-cellar; and the consequence of the guests was marked by their seats above or below the salt. [4]
The lower half was closed, the upper open, and the winter sun was shining full into the room, where a bright fire burned. [11]
Its showy splendour, visible for a long distance, occupied the wide space between the door of the house and the windows of the upper story. [10]
Of all the villages of Upper Egypt, from the time of Rameses, none has been so bad as Beni Hassan. [11]
It is not very uncommon to see the upper limbs, or one of them, running away with the whole strength, and, therefore, with the whole beauty, which we should never have noticed, if it had been divided equally between all four extremities. [6]
She dropped her veil, and for a long space was silent while they rapidly threaded the traffic, and at length turned into upper Fifth Avenue, skirting the Park. [9]
She has the usual Upper River quota of factories, newspapers, and institutions of learning; she has telephones, local telegraphs, an electric alarm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. [5]
And still the Uraeus snake--the asp whose bite caused almost instant death, reared its head as the time-honored emblem of this privilege, by the side of St. George the Dragon-slayer, over the palaces of the Mukaukas at Memphis, and at Lykopolis in Upper Egypt. [10]
Tillotson on the upper, in a little dark platoon of octo-decimos. [6]
His smoothly shaven upper lip and brown whiskers, his erect bearing and energetic manner, reminded one of an English parliamentary leader, but his words sounded almost menacing. [10]
One of his upper front teeth was loose. [5]
We'll have all Upper Egypt on the banks of the Nile waiting to see what happens to Mustapha. [11]
Fumbling in the upper drawer for a pair of white gloves (also new), she knocked off the corner of the bureau her velvet bag; it opened as it struck the floor, and out of it rolled a lilac vanity case and a yellow coin. [9]
At the right upper corner is a fresh-looking youth of whose name and history I have as yet learned nothing. [6]
We have an upper and lower skin. [5]
Intellect--just pure intellect--away up on the upper levels, dontchuknow. [5]
Evidently, they had tripped and been shot down an almost perpendicular slope of ice to a point where it joined the border of the upper glacier. [5]
Sometimes he climbed tree, and again he sent me to the upper branches, whence I surveyed a sea of tree-tops waving in the wind, and looked onward to where a green velvet hollow lay nestling on the western side of a saddle-backed ridge. [9]
All who could travel on foot,--multitudes with slight wounds of the upper limbs, the head, or face,--were told to take up their beds,--alight burden or none at all,--and walk. [6]
If he comes towards the upper Potomac, follow on his flank, and on the inside track, shortening your lines while he lengthens his. [7]
On the side toward the room the curtains were drawn back far enough to allow those who were permitted to approach the regent to see her head and the upper portion of her body, which was wrapped in an ermine cape. [10]
Hadrian had gone to visit these, for the remarkable pictures on the walls delighted him, but Antinous remained behind, for he had already looked at similar works oftener than he cared for, in Upper Egypt. [10]
They took him to the upper end of the field, where there were some sheds built of charred planks, beams, and battens, and led him into one of them. [2]
I am going to the rooms of Bent-Anat; Katuti, who can go in and out as she pleases, will set fire to the stairs, which lead to the upper story, and which fall by touching a spring; and Paaker to the king's apartments. [10]
The long building to the left was the weaving shop and her nurse Perpetua lived there, in the upper story. [10]
Then I began to sketch a villa in the outskirts of a big town--because I saw the proprietor standing on an upper veranda. [5]
Do you mean to say that the upper Me, the Me of the true thinking-marrow, the convolutions of the brain, does not know better? [6]
I am pleased to say that he has been promoted to an upper clerkship, and, in consequence of his rise in office, has taken an apartment somewhat lower down than number "forty-'leven," as he facetiously called his attic. [6]
It was beginning to make its way through the upper windows, also, and presently a tongue of fire shot out and streamed upward along the side of the house. [6]
It is better to keep them from between the upper and nether mill-stones. [11]
It never failed to give at least temporary relief, but nothing enabled me to sleep in my state-room, though I had it all to myself, the upper berth being removed. [6]
He had started to follow the patriarch immediately after the pursuers had set out, and had only returned from Upper Egypt early on the previous day. [10]
It is impossible to doubt that colour has been gained by many fishes as a protection: no one can examine the speckled upper surface of a flounder, and overlook its resemblance to the sandy bed of the sea on which it lives. [1]
The foliage seemed to consist of big bunches of pine-spines, the lower half of each bunch a rich brown or old-gold color, the upper half a most vivid and strenuous and shouting green. [5]
But we wish to add to words another token of appreciation, a token of more lasting duration.--Do us the favour, Marquise de Leria, to conduct this noble artist to the upper rooms, that she may receive what we intended for her. [10]
Some were whittled to a sharp point, and slightly bent at the upper end, like a lady's finger; one monster sugar-loaf resembled a bishop's hat; it was too steep to hold snow on its sides, but had some in the division. [5]
The mob had thrown stones at the upper windows, in order to awaken him, and had insulted him with cursing and offensive language. [4]
The cannon-balls tore through its slight buildings, wrecking them as if they had been built of cards; and every moment or two one would see a huge rock come curving through the upper air above the smoke-clouds and go plunging down through the roofs. [5]
While thinking these thoughts I yawned, in a rather ample way, and my upper teeth got hitched on a nail over the door, and while I was mounting a chair to free myself, Harris drew the window-curtain, and said: "Oh, this is luck! [5]
The ringleader of this little mob was a short-haired bully and amateur prize-fighter named Allen, who was accustomed to lording it over the upper floor, and had more than once shown a disposition to make trouble with Tracy. [5]
When I returned, they had laid Calvin on a table in an upper chamber by an open window. [4]
In one of these camps we found Ab Grimes, an Upper Mississippi pilot, who afterwards became famous as a dare-devil rebel spy, whose career bristled with desperate adventures. [5]
And Honora, following their glances, beheld the two ladies, in the negligee referred to above, with their elbows on the railing of the upper hall and their faces between their hands, engaged in a lively exchange of compliments with the gentlemen. [9]
They found that the water at the upper end ran slower than five miles; that below it was swifter than five miles, but that the average was five miles. [7]
The beekeeper opens the upper part of the hive and examines the super. [2]
Henderson's palace, in the upper part of the city, had long been a topic for the correspondents of the country press. [4]
Charmian timidly lifted the upper layer of the fruit, but the Queen said mournfully: "The wife of Antony dragged through the streets of Rome behind the victor's chariot, a spectacle for the populace and envious matrons! [10]
He lives at the upper end of the town, she says. [5]
They retired to the upper end of the "Meadows," resumed civilized apparel, washed off their paint, and then, heavily armed, drove down in wagons to the beleaguered emigrants, bearing a flag of truce! [5]
Everybody sat on the upper deck, on benches, under an awning; everybody talked, laughed, and exclaimed at the wonder scenery; in truth, a trip on that lake is almost the perfection of pleasuring. [5]
In one of the upper chambers of the old mansion there stood a tall, upright desk of the ancient pattern, with folding doors above and large drawers below. [6]
Such differences between the upper and lower surfaces of the wings of several species of Papilio may be seen in the beautiful plates to Mr. Wallace's 'Memoir on the Papilionidae of the Malayan Region,' in 'Transactions of the Linnean Society,' vol. [1]
It lay between the upper and lower divisions of the Union forces, and kept them separate, until a junction was finally effected across the Missouri neck of land; but the island being itself joined to that neck now, the wide river is without obstruction. [5]
The curves of the tiled roof enfolded the upper windows; the walls were thick, the note one of mystery. [9]
The deputation from the temple of Memphis led the procession; this temple had been founded by Mena, the first king who wore the united crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt, and Chamus, the king's son, was the high-priest. [10]
He towers into the sky like a colossal wedge, with the upper third of its blade bent a little to the left. [5]
We move up the river--always through enchanting scenery, there being no other kind on the Upper Mississippi--and pass Moline, a center of vast manufacturing industries; and Clinton and Lyons, great lumber centers; and presently reach Dubuque, which is situated in a rich mineral region. [5]
Monday came, and the new schoolmaster was in his chair at the upper end of the schoolhouse, on the raised platform. [6]
The tusks in the lower jaw are sharper than those in the upper, but from their shortness it seems hardly possible that they can be used as weapons of attack. [1]
In compensation for the loss of the lower tusks as weapons of offence, those in the upper jaw, which always project a little laterally, increase in old age so much in length and curve so much upwards that they can be used for attack. [1]
One morning in the late spring Janet crossed the Warren Street bridge, the upper of the two spider-like structures to be seen from her office window, spanning the river beside the great Hampton dam. [9]
Martha Washington and the good ladies of her acquaintance knew nothing about the upper waters of the Missouri, and the words "for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer" were not merely literature to them. [9]
On each of the gate-posts a crouching lion was outlined dimly against the fainting light, and, by crossing the street, we could see the upper line of a latticed gallery under the low roof. [9]
Opposite Davenport is the flourishing town of Rock Island, which lies at the foot of the Upper Rapids. [5]
Next day, at the first moment he could dispose of, Antinous again knocked at the carpenter's door to inquire in what town of Upper Egypt the travellers proposed to settle and the artisan told him frankly, "In Besa. [10]
I cannot describe the emotions which surged like tidal waves through my breast when I saw the moon glide behind that lofty needle and pass it by without exposing more than two feet four inches of her upper rim above it; I was secure, then. [5]
Going quietly through the disordered Upper Town, we came down Palace Street to the Intendance. [11]
The windows of the corner room on the upper floor were lighted up; two of these windows looked out on the river and the quay. [10]
The ends of the collar were apart the width of the red clipped beard, and the mustache was cropped straight along the line of the upper lip. [9]
So long as the Church had the upper hand, she burned and quartered you, now you have the power here, our priests are persecuted and scorned. [10]

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