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Sentences ending with upright

Seven lustres have turned our hair grey, but we still can stand upright. [10]
His spine did not seem strong enough for his long body, and he never held himself upright. [10]
Suddenly through the night we heard a sort of reply that started us bolt upright. [4]
She clapped her hand to her forehead like one possessed or in a fit, as though caught in her own snare, and she would have fallen, if I had not held her upright. [10]
How could I ever find peace and comfort in so perverse a world, and amid this feigning which had turned upside down all that heretofore had seemed upright? [10]
And so he comes to know the heart of the man who hath sickness, and calls upon someone, even though it be a weak woman, to cure his sickness; who is bowed low as beside a grave, and would stand upright. [11]
Suddenly he flew away, and I heard a voice from the street side that brought me stark upright. [9]

Short sentences using upright

She recognised the upright rider. [11]

Sentences containing upright two or more times

The superincumbent weight was sufficient to mash the ends of those great upright beams fairly into the solid wood of the horizontal ones three inches, compressing and bending the upright beam till it curved like a bow. [5]

More example sentences with the word upright in them

The wagons are without seats, and the canvas is too low to admit of sitting upright, if there were. [4]
Euphrasia stood upright with her hand on the knob, and her eyes flashed over the group and rested fixedly on the daughter of Mr. Flint. [9]
Then I witnessed what Brehm has described, for monkey after monkey, with head raised high and turned on one side, could not resist taking a momentary peep into the upright bag, at the dreadful object lying quietly at the bottom. [1]
All the figures were upright now in the little room. [11]
With what zealous warmth he related that Wolff, like the upright man he was, had rejected even the faintest shadow of doubt of her steadfastness and truth, which were his own principal virtues also. [10]
We elected to walk upright, for convenience's sake; we argued that if discerned, we should be taken for friends rather than enemies, and in any case we should be out of reach of swords, and these gentry did not seem to have any spears along. [5]
I sat bolt upright, silent, sad, and solemn. [5]
One can sleep upright, but not when his head is every moment knocked against the framework of a wagon-cover. [4]
And in it, upright, blinking at the light, were two odd Frenchified figures in tasselled nightcaps. [9]
His simple but upright mind felt that she was right, so far as he was concerned, and she was more beautiful in her anger than he had seen her since the brilliant days of her youthful pride. [10]
Anatole was sitting upright in the classic pose of military dandies, the lower part of his face hidden by his beaver collar and his head slightly bent. [2]
He was sitting upright in his chair. [9]
She was sitting upright in a chair, looking straight before her. [11]
Naked swordsmen, with upright and shining blades, were followed by men on camels bearing kettle-drums. [11]
Is this being upright and faithful, or not rather speaking with two tongues? [10]
Shorter jerked himself upright again, and became very solemn. [9]
However, one or two young men remained upright, and by constant persecution we wormed out of them some little information. [5]
I was ashamed to say anything about it and kept upright on my saddle, until we had to take fresh horses at Bagis. [10]
She began mechanically to rearrange her hat and veil; and after that, sitting upright, to watch the cross streets with feverish anticipation, her hands in her lap. [9]
It was found to consist of a hard, smooth, huge object with a rounded summit surmounted by a short upright projection resembling a section of a cabbage stalk divided transversely. [5]
She settled herself, though she sat quite upright, in the geometrical centre of the horsehair sofa, and cleared her throat. [9]
While he kissed their hands and stammered out words of gratitude, his uncultured but upright spirit told him that he had been blind ever to have rejoiced for a moment at the news that Melissa had been chosen to be empress. [10]
Adrian ran to the workshops and told the men, Peter went to the town-hall with a more upright bearing, and Maria, who was obliged to go out, undertook to tell Wilhelm's mother of the good results produced by her son's gift. [10]
The front of the upright piano had what March called a short-skirted portiere on it, and the top was covered with vases, with dragon candlesticks and with Jap fans, which also expanded themselves bat wise on the walls between the etchings and the water colors. [8]
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]
All the time the story was being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more beautiful bosom, on which she readjusted a diamond necklace. [2]
When she heard the second signal on Katuti's silver whistle, she sat upright and muttered: "That gallows-bird Paaker, his vain aunt and that villain Ani, are no match for Rameses, even when he is asleep. [10]
About midway down the outside rank, a shrouded figure was sitting upright, wagging its head slowly from one side to the other--a grisly spectacle! [5]
Jethro waited until the man had become upright and then held out a two-dollar bill. [9]
We came to the little church, of upright logs and plaster, with its crudely shingled, peaked roof, with its tiny belfry crowned by a cross, with its porches on each side shading the line of windows there. [9]
Virginie also bought the furniture from Zoe's bedroom as it stood, together with the little upright piano on which she used to play. [11]
Publius Scipio, on the contrary, thinks and sees and speaks with perfect independence, and his upright sense guides him to the truth without any trouble or special training. [10]
A letter in the bold and upright hand of his son was on the top of the pile, placed there by Mr. Flint himself, who had examined Mr. Worthington's face closely when he came in to see how much he might know of its contents. [9]
But sleep avoided the artist who was too much excited by his rapid night's work, and as soon as Selene opened the door he sat upright and peeped through an opening between the frames of his place of retirement. [10]
Did they believe that a man like Brass could reside in a place like Bevis Marks, and not be a virtuous and most upright character? [12]
Visions of hot summer evenings come back, with Uncle Tom, in his seersucker coat, with his green watering-pot, bending over the beds, and Aunt Mary seated upright in her chair, looking up from her knitting with a loving eye. [9]
A few upright stones were all that I recollect. [6]
As he stood still, upright and confounded, some one touched his arm. [11]
But it is still observable that with all his changes of position, he never assumes the upright or a fraudful affectation of dignity. [5]
Then my brother sprang up and declared that the family of an upright and faithful servant of the State, and of a friend of the Schoppers, should have some better and more honorable means of living than beggars' pence. [10]
These beams are solid--eighteen inches square; first, a great beam is laid on the floor, then upright ones, five feet high, stand on it, supporting another horizontal beam, and so on, square above square, like the framework of a window. [5]
His master having shown him the whip resumed his seat and called up the others, who, at his directions, formed in a row, standing upright as a file of soldiers. [12]
By and by she sat suddenly upright, for a comforting thought had flown through her worried mind-- "'T ain't no sin--_white_ folks has done it! [5]
When he was sent to the kitchen for anything, he marched upright till he got to the door; he turned hand-springs the rest of the way. [5]
Under the Hohenstaufen rule their upright ancestors had so strengthened this confidence that wherever he went the Nuremberg merchant received respect and confidence above many--perhaps all others. [10]
He is the principal owner in the Lavalle Iron Mine, and he is one of the most sensible, sound, and upright men of my acquaintance. [4]
She notices that one sits upright, and one seems leaning forward on his horse's neck. [11]
He had but one marring thought; he was willing that the dog should play with his pinchbug, but he did not think it was upright in him to carry it off. [5]
It is made on the principle that man is an upright, sensible, reasonable being, and not a groveling wretch. [4]
But the adults of the congregation appeared to be perfectly satisfied with it; at least they sat bolt upright and nodded assent continually. [4]
About the middle of the afternoon we passed through a prodigious natural gateway called the Felsenthor, formed by two enormous upright rocks, with a third lying across the top. [5]
Through those days of terror he was what he always had been and would remain, an upright man and soldier, in the highest and noblest meaning of the words. [10]
Upon the hill of Plemont above them, a stone taken from the chimney of the hut where Guida used to live, stood upright beside a little grave. [11]
From the words of his comrades who saw better than he did, he found that this was the body of a man, set upright against the palings with its face smeared with soot. [2]
At the house of a friend where I once passed the night was one of those stately upright cabinet desks and cases of drawers which were not rare in prosperous families during the last century. [6]
The long-armed apes occasionally use their arms like crutches, swinging their bodies forward between them, and some kinds of Hylobates, without having been taught, can walk or run upright with tolerable quickness; yet they move awkwardly, and much less securely than man. [1]
The beggar said nothing, but motioned to him to lift the sick man upright, while he poured some tincture down his throat, and bound the head and neck about with saturated linen. [11]
Within were two narrow seats, facing each other, affording no room for the legs of passengers, and offering them no position but a strictly upright one. [4]
Having already expressed my sense of your kind and upright conduct, I can now only say that I trust you will always have reason to be as well content with me as I am with you. [14]
Hold on to my girdle, and bend your head low till I tell you you may stand upright again. [10]
One of our most inveterate relic-hunters had his hammer with him, and tried to break a fragment off the upright Needle and could not do it; he tried the prostrate one and failed; he borrowed a heavy sledge hammer from a mason and tried again. [5]
Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. [5]
I believe the Moslems do not allow them to have upright tombstones. [5]
He held him more upright, to be sure, and his countenance was less pale and hollow than it had been; but nevermore might he be a strong man. [10]
An upright cannon marks the spot where a scrawny oak once stood on a scarred and baked hillside, outside of the Confederate lines at Vicksburg. [9]
Perhaps I have lived too long I have lived to see honourable, upright men deprived of what was rightfully theirs, driven from their livelihood by the rapacity of those who strive to concentrate the wealth and power of the nation into their hands. [9]
That is, the Little Hammer whom the high gods knew was gone; though an ill-nourished, self-strangled body was upright by the wall. [11]
The gem-cutter looked like the shadow of himself, and had lost his upright carriage. [10]
He was at least a head taller than any man there, and though he was not so upright as he had been, the lines of his figure were still those of a commanding personality. [11]
Once came the King and Queen--Francis and Mary--" Elizabeth drew herself upright with an exclamation. [11]
A Moslem grave is usually roughly plastered over and whitewashed, and has at one end an upright projection which is shaped into exceedingly rude attempts at ornamentation. [5]
When these orders, in spite of the physicians, had been obeyed, Cambyses was raised into an upright sitting position, and began, in a voice which could be heard at a considerable distance: "The time to reveal my great secret has arrived, O ye Persians. [10]
It was written in serious good faith and deep earnestness, by an honest and upright idiot who believed he knew something of the English language, and could impart his knowledge to others. [5]
Then, standing upright in front of her suitor, she exclaimed: "Shame upon you all! [10]
Blessed days of ignorance and upright living! [4]
His motto, as I have said, was, "True, pure, and upright in life. [10]
The bear, a huge brown animal, upright on his hind legs, was dancing sideways along the road, keeping time to the lazy notes of his leader's voice. [11]
Then bags were hoisted that told of the number of vessels: one, two, three, four, five, six, then one next the upright, meaning seven. [11]
He then erects his tail, and expands his wing-feathers into a great, almost upright, circular fan or shield, which is carried in front of the body. [1]
But he held his burden almost upright, and by slipping side wise and bending the saplings he got in. [13]
Swiftly Nahoum told him the whole truth--even to the picture of the brougham, and the rigid, upright figure passing through the night to Foorgat's palace, the gaunt Mizraim piloting the equipage of death. [11]
Then she made her way home, at first weeping silently with bowed head, but afterwards tearless, upright, and with a confident step. [10]
Mr. Worthington, whose hawklike look had become more pronounced, sat upright, while the Honorable Heth, his legs crossed, filled every nook and cranny of an arm-chair, and an occasional fragrant whiff from his cigar floated out to those on the tar sidewalk. [9]
Tightly buttoned, silk hatted, upright, he sat in the corner of his limousine, the tasselled speaking-tube in his hand, from time to time cautioning his chauffeur. [9]
A large party had collected under the wide palm-thatched roof of the dyeing shed-pretty and ugly, brown and fair, tall and short; some upright and some bent by toil at the loom from early youth, but all young; not one more than eighteen years old. [10]
Reaching the pine grove, thinned by a famous landscape architect, she paused involuntarily to wonder again at the ultramarine of Sawanec through the upright columns of the trunks under the high canopy of boughs. [9]
Her upright sense gave an honest answer when she asked herself what would have become of them all if her father had remained alive and had been dispossessed of his office? [10]
Others of the force might wink at it; but his mind appeared to sit severely upright upon the cold platform of Penalty, in beholding breaches of the statutes. [11]
There was silence for a moment after he had called into the void, as it were, and then there appeared suddenly from behind a clump of juniper, a young man of dark face and upright bearing. [11]
She opened the folding doors of the great upright desk. [6]
Nor would his father and Miriam be angry with him, nay, they would mourn the faithful son, the upright man, who chose death rather than dishonor. [10]
With this man's example before their eyes they would become knights as upright and noble as Kunz Heideck, whom every one esteemed. [10]
She sat as easily upright in the delicate Chippendale chair as though she had been born to it. [9]
When he is down on all his knees, flat on his breast to receive his load, he looks something like a goose swimming; and when he is upright he looks like an ostrich with an extra set of legs. [5]
It had a crazy board fence around it, which leaned inward in places, and outward the rest of the time, but stood upright nowhere. [5]
She asked questions concerning the machinery which mightily pleased Mr. Devlin, they were so apt and intelligent; and herself assisted in giving an immense log to the teeth of the largest saw, which, with its six upright blades, ate, and was never satisfied. [11]
It is a common saying of a jockey, that he is "all horse"; and I have often fancied that milkmen get a stiff, upright carriage, and an angular movement of the arm, that remind one of a pump and the working of its handle. [6]
The flushed and comfortable Madame Marie sat upright in the coach, holding the hand of her mistress, and Madelinette grew paler as the miles diminished between her and Quebec. [11]
Then we were both beside her, bending over her, she sitting upright and smiling at us. [9]
The Judge had bolted upright from the pillows. [9]

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