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Sentences starting with upward

Upward mounting, till the earth, no longer bathed in the sun's rays, went out to my sight, disappeared in the blank. [4]
Upward crept the board, and suddenly it was gone from the floor. [9]

Sentences ending with upward

Love continued to yearn for him even after she had sundered the bond; but he often yielded to the longing for his higher home, of whose splendours he retained a memory, and soared upward. [10]
The narrow path which buried itself in the sand was becoming a thoroughfare leading upward. [10]
As the papers were handed over, a photograph dropped from among them and fell to the floor face upward. [11]
Why did leaden weights seem to hang upon her soul when she attempted to soar upward? [10]
His sword flashed upward. [11]
There was Herr Tiefel with the little Dresden-blue eyes, red and round and jolly; and Hauptmann, long and thin and sallow; and Korner, redbearded and ponderous; and Konig, a little clean-cut man with a blond mustache that pointed upward. [9]
An hour ago the place was covered with water, and roaring waves were dashing their white spray upward. [10]
They passed by the old Welshman's house, half-way up the hill, without hesitating, and still climbed upward. [5]
Honora stopped, and seized his chin and tilted his face upward. [9]
Hugh and Mr. Pembroke were standing at the foot of the stairs, gazing upward. [9]

Short sentences using upward

Venters passed onward and upward. [13]

More example sentences with the word upward in them

Generation after generation would labour with unflagging zeal until the art sculptured fragment of the new Cathedral--the new Cathedral of Democracy --pointed upward toward the blue vault of heaven. [9]
Sometimes moaning, sometimes whistling, the gusts of the hurricane drove the water and the travellers before it, while the rain poured from the sky to the earth, and wherever it struck splashed upward, making little whirlpools and swiftly breaking bubbles. [10]
The greatest deed which she expected from the energetic Julius was that he would abolish the republic, which she hated, and soar upward to tyrannize over the arrogant rulers of the world--only she would fain have seen Antony in his place. [10]
Orthodox though he were, there had been times when his humour had borne him upward toward higher truths, and he had once remarked that promising to love forever was like promising to become President of the United States. [9]
Thus all eyes were directed upward, and Diodoros's with the rest. [10]
Yet on I went, though wondering that the path along which I groped my way led upward, until the lightning showed me that, by mistake, I had taken the road to Greifenstein. [10]
Again a warm wave of joy seemed to surge upward in her breast, and she fancied that her heart was much too small for such a wealth of rapture, and it was already overflowing in hot waves, washing all grief far, far away. [10]
A white shell walk divided the garden and ended at the door of a low outbuilding, from the chimney of which blue smoke curled upward in the evening air. [9]
They were probably waiting for their comrades, for when the young wife had ascended the first steps of the staircase and looked upward, she found the top of the narrow flight barred by the tall figure of a soldier. [10]
And its trend--never upward, but downward, ever downward! [5]
You may reach upward your hands, Praying for what you have lost. [11]
Then, with an upward wave of his fingers, he spoke in a mocking lightness, but without any of the malice which had first appeared in his tones, words from an old French song: "I say no more, my lady Mironton, Mironton, Mirontaine! [11]
They dragged themselves upward in a worn and weary way, for they had been climbing steadily from the Grand Mulets, on the Glacier des Dossons, since three in the morning, and it was eleven, now. [5]
Fame beckoned him upward from her templed steep. [6]
New horror seized upon him; with arms flung upward to bid the specters avaunt he muttered the exorcism against the wiles of evil spirits. [10]
The wreck lodged upon a sandbar, and when the Boreas turned the next point on her upward journey it was still burning with scarcely abated fury. [5]
You can stand up straight in water that is over your head, and from the middle of your breast upward you will not be wet. [5]
By rough ways to the stars--Nay what they say to me is: Upward, under the burden of the cross, to bliss here and hereafter--And you too," he added, looking in his darling's face. [10]
When we came to the base of the rock, we found a way cut, a narrow path, most of the distance hewn out of the rock, winding upward along the face of the precipice. [4]
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]
A chill ran through her veins, she began to be afraid, yet could not leave the portrait, and stood gazing upward with dilated eyes. [10]
He remained in this attitude a long time, then suddenly started up, threw his arms upward, and exclaimed, "Korner, I'll follow you! [10]
As soon as they let go, he placed all his feet in a bunch together, lowered his back, and then suddenly arched it upward, and shot me straight into the air a matter of three or four feet! [5]
Above this point there is an outward swell, and thence upward for six feet or more the cylinder is a bright, fresh green, and is formed of wrappings like those of an ear of green Indian corn. [5]
The candles threw their flickering rays upward until they danced on the high ceiling. [9]
Both stood straining their eyes and ears to pierce the darkness; but instead of gazing upward the star-reader's eye was bent upon the city, the distant sea, and the level plain. [10]
Out here, on the wind-swept hills that rolled onward and upward to the mountains, the world was his. [9]
The thrill of the voices shows that the love of Shelley and Mary was already upward of a fortnight old; therefore it had been born within the month of May--born while Harriet was still trying to get her poem by heart, we think. [5]
The lights of the village twinkled at our feet, and now and then a voice from below was caught and borne upward to us. [9]
The branches of the sycamores and plane-trees drooped and floated on the waves, but the boughs of the tall silver poplars strained upward, as if anxious to avoid the watery world beneath. [10]
Some, however, made the sweeping Oriental gesture of the right hand, palm upward, and almost touching the ground--a sign of obedience and infinite respect. [11]
Unheeding Joshua, or the stir in the camp, she again flung herself down with uplifted arms under the sycamore, gazing upward with dilated, tearful eyes, as if expecting a new revelation. [10]
He jumped for the stair-foot, and closed the door behind him; and as he snatched his candle and fled upward, the stillness of the night was broken by the sound of urgent footsteps approaching the house. [5]
He stood beside the rack for the magazines and reviews, somewhat nervously fingering a heavy watch charm, his large silk hat bottom upward on the chair behind him. [9]
Let us observe the proprieties, however; no swelling upward of the mother,--no hysterica passio, we do not like scenes. [6]
At 90 degrees the oak stops short; to slant upward another degree would mark infirmity of purpose; to bend downwards, weakness of organization. [6]
You could follow the line of the procession back, and slanting upward into the sky, far away in a glittering snaky rope, till it was only a faint streak in the distance. [5]
It lay on the ground; beside it the Eletto, with his face turned upward, mute and motionless. [10]
By infinitesimal degrees the dark cloud-line merged upward into the golden-red haze of the afterglow of sunset. [13]
You will find, that, in passing from the extreme downward droop of the branches of the weeping-willow to the extreme upward inclination of those of the poplar, they sweep nearly half a circle. [6]
It was rumoured that the divinity had saved her own statue by a miracle; Pamaut, the police officer, said that he had seen her himself as, surrounded by a brilliant light, she soared upward on the smoke that poured from the burning house. [10]
She came with that sense of manifold deficiencies, and eager ambition to supply them, which carries any learner upward, as if on wings, over the heads of the mechanical plodders and the indifferent routinists. [6]
The rector maintained that physicians contracted a squint which turns their eyes inwardly, while the muscles which roll their eyes upward become palsied. [6]
He had entered that period which marks the decline of men who have ceased growing in knowledge and strength: from forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. [6]
Leave nought unnoticed that lies in thy path, but above all direct thy gaze upward to the stars. [10]
Joshua now knew that it was the youth's sharp teeth gnawing the rope which had caused the noise that had just surprised him, and he immediately stood up and looked first upward and then around him. [10]
The Tall Master swung his bow upward, but at that instant there came a knock, and, in response to a call, Wind Driver and Wine Face entered. [11]
His Majesty the Sultan has already sent in large orders for his new harem, which will be finished within a fortnight, and this has naturally strengthened the market and given Circassian stock a strong upward tendency. [5]
The Colonel's hand strayed upward to Virginia's head. [9]
The hands of strangers had bound the sapling to a stake and it had shot straight upward, but a mother's love would have ennobled it with carefully chosen grafts. [10]
The figure had stopped before the door and now, raising its head, gazed with wide eyes upward at the moon, and--he was not mistaken--it was no spectre of darkness; it was she for whom every pulse of his heart throbbed--Eva! [10]
As I lay staring upward, odd little bits of the past came floating to the top of my mind, presently to be pieced together. [9]
I travelled homeward somewhat lifted out of myself by this visit to him; with some feeling of spaciousness derived from Washington itself, with its dignified Presidential Mansion among the trees, its granite shaft drawing the eye upward, with its winged Capitol serene upon the hill. [9]
Rising from the soft pillows in the coffin, she shook her finger threateningly at her, or, weeping and wailing, pointed down to the flames--doubtless those of purgatory--which were blazing upward around her, and had already caught the hem of her shroud. [10]
For a moment so, and then as the canoe shot forward on a fresh current, the lithe body sank backwards in the canoe, and lay face upward to the evening sky. [11]
And Virginia, glancing shyly upward, saw a smile in the creases about his mouth: She smiled, too, and then the tears hid him from her. [9]
The hazy light showed his face upward to the skies, his breast rising and falling in a heavy, luxurious sleep. [11]
With quickened breath, she gazed upward to the face, yet she would gladly have closed her eyes and lost her hearing, that she might neither see it nor catch the voices from the tree. [10]
No foolish passion shall prevent the convalescent youth from following his father upward along the pathway of fame. [10]
With her hand shading her brow, she gazed upward to the full moon. [10]
The noon sun seemed to steep the white vapor with light, and lure it upward by its ardent rays. [10]
Venters placed the saddle for a pillow, rolled in his blankets, with his face upward to the stars. [13]
Here and there ribbons of smoke curled upward, adding volume to the blue cloud that hung over the tables, which in turn was dissipated in spots by the industrious electric fans. [9]
Wrath against himself preyed upon him, and when he thrust a spear into the flames, scattering the embers and sending a shower of bright sparks upward, it was rage at his own wavering will that guided his hand. [10]
He began life poor and unknown, and fought his way upward until he conquered the world. [9]
When they had passed the last of the huts she managed to look upward. [10]
I afterward carried out that scheme, and got five years' good service out of him; in which time he turned out upward of eighteen thousand first-rate tow-linen shirts, which was ten a day. [5]
It is twenty or thirty feet long, and is narrow and deep, like a canoe; its sharp bow and stern sweep upward from the water like the horns of a crescent with the abruptness of the curve slightly modified. [5]
The little village of Yalta nestles at the foot of an amphitheatre which slopes backward and upward to the wall of hills, and looks as if it might have sunk quietly down to its present position from a higher elevation. [5]
A strong smell of tobacco, however, suggested a new train of ideas, he looked upward, and saw that the dwarf was smoking in his hammock. [12]
The gradual narrowing of the wall from the base upward is accurately preserved. [5]
We saw upward of a million cats in Bermuda, but the people are very abstemious in the matter of dogs. [5]
There were gleams of a beautiful nature shining through some ill-defined medium which disturbed and made them flicker and waver, as distant images do when seen through the rippling upward currents of heated air. [6]
But he saw nothing except the dawn and light clouds of smoke, that assumed a rosy hue as they floated upward. [10]
Then we have Muscatine, ten thousand; Winona, ten thousand; Moline, ten thousand; Rock Island, twelve thousand; La Crosse, twelve thousand; Burlington, twenty-five thousand; Dubuque, twenty-five thousand; Davenport, thirty thousand; St. Paul, fifty-eight thousand, Minneapolis, sixty thousand and upward. [5]
Each of its monstrous sides was a wide stairway which rose upward, step above step, narrowing as it went, till it tapered to a point far aloft in the air. [5]
Venters had a moment's notice of the rock, which was of the same smoothness and hardness as the slope below, before his gaze went irresistibly upward to the precipitous walls of this wide ladder of granite. [13]
At the same moment his horse leaped upward with all four feet at once, tossed its clever head convulsively, and sank on its knees. [10]
At last a mercifully swift tide of flame burst upward, and none saw that face any more nor that form, and the voice was still. [5]
To her the marble Capitol shining on its hill was a sacred temple, and the great shaft that struck upward through the sunlight, though yet unfinished, a fitting memorial to him who had led the barefoot soldiers of the colonies through ridicule to victory. [9]
Yet Nicolas laughed loudly, as he perceived the queer objects in the top of the elm, and pointing upward, said: "What kind of fruits are hanging there? [10]
He did not look upward as usual to the window of his beautiful Els, but either fixed his eyes upon the spot where his new acquaintance was conversing with another person, or bent them anxiously upon the ground. [10]
By triangulation Lord Longlegs determined its altitude; Herr Spider measured its circumference at the base and computed the circumference at its top by a mathematical demonstration based upon the warrant furnished by the uniform degree of its taper upward. [5]
Even Fahrenheit's contrivance joins in the upward movement: the mercury has suddenly gone up from thirty degrees to sixty-five degrees. [4]
Can you, my John, have you really the firm conviction that, if this lofty desire is fulfilled, you will be content and believe that you have found the summit and the limit of your feverish struggle upward and forward? [10]
The Honourable Dave, indeed, had fought his way upward through life to the Congress of the United States; and many were the harrowing tales of frontier life he told Honora in the long winter evenings when the blizzards came down the river valley. [9]
It is utterly inaccessible, except in one place, where a bridle-path winds upward among the solid rocks to the old portcullis. [5]
The main feature in this central pile is the great dome, which swells upward to nearly two-thirds of a sphere and tapers at its extremity into a pointed spire crowned by a crescent. [5]
The first thing I remember about it is that I was floating upward, without any sense of effort on my part. [6]
And that night I had reason to thank the Reverend Mr. Allen, for the first and last time in my life, that I could stand a deal of liquor, and yet not roll bottom upward. [9]
But here, as I entered the hall, all was quiet: a dignified, deep-carpeted stairway swept upward before me, and on either side were wide, empty rooms; and in the subdued light of one of them I saw a dark figure moving silently about--the butler. [9]
We could see how the cooling crust had been lifted and split and turned over by the hot stream underneath, which, continually oozing from the rent of the eruption, bore it down and pressed it upward. [4]
Neither Pharaoh nor his queen could possibly have heard the muttered conversation between the men; yet the Egyptians, at the close of every sentence, glanced upward at the king as if to ensure his approbation. [10]
He suddenly tipped his bow upward and brought it down with a most delicate crash upon the strings. [11]
Forward, with a heavy sigh of relief, and upward glance of gratitude, came the friends of peace. [5]
On the other hand, the physician has often been renowned for piety as well as for his peculiarly professional virtue of charity,--led upward by what he sees to the source of all the daily marvels wrought before his own eyes. [6]
At first she had fled without any plan out into the night and up the mountain; the moon lighted her on her way, and for fully an hour she continued her upward road without any rest. [10]
The Swiss trains go upward of three miles an hour, in places, but they are quite safe. [5]
He would have given the world to sketch in that exquisite figure, but every time he cast his eye upward the peril was so evident that his hand shook. [4]
The peinador had given his budding moustache a bold twist upward. [10]

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