How did you manage to get her, you spiritual and physical upstart?

BOO'BY (Lady), a vulgar upstart, who tries to seduce her footman, Joseph Andrews.

The duchess of Parma hated him, as a domestic spy robbing her of all real authority; the royalist nobles, as an insolent upstart at every instant mortifying their pride.

The Sophomore is an intellectual upstart.

Her behaviour, in her new international relations, is like the behaviour of an uneasy, jealous upstart in an old-fashioned quiet drawing-room.

Why didn't they think the Proudfoots and the Wilkinsons and the Wagstaffs, and other local nobody-somebodies, people of importance, and why did they think the mayor a ludicrous upstart, and the adjacent J.P. a sententious old idiot?

The fashionable ladies in the neighbourhood, also, called her "a mean person""a nobody""an upstart of yesterday."

Who is this municipal upstart?

" "I think he is a blawsted upstart," said Paulding, lazily puffing at his cigarette.

Perhaps he desired to teach the presumptuous upstart, Dearman, a little lesson....

If station agents all along the line were allowed to send telegrams every seditious upstart would take advantage of it and they'd have more trouble than they've got now.

They represented him as a mere puppy, a silly and irreverent upstart whose impudence supplied the lack of policy and character.

Her behaviour, in her new international relations, is like the behaviour of an uneasy, jealous upstart in an old-fashioned quiet drawing-room.

But hatest thou not to see a vile upstart like this Reynold Greenleaf taking it upon him so bravely?" "Ay, marry, that do I," quoth the Cook boldly, for he liked the Steward because of his talk of the wine and of the ten shillings.

This is primarily a result of our geographical position in the midst of hostile rivals, but also because we have forced ourselves, though the last-comers, the virtual upstarts, between the States which have earlier gained their place, and now claim our share in the dominion of this world, after we have for centuries been paramount only in the realm of intellect.

Against this preposterous Prussian upstart we have not only to protect our unity; we have even to protect our quarrels.

They are annoyed and rather bewildered when they see Germany cutting in ahead of them, especially in the commerce of the Orient; any Englishman "east of Suez" can give a dozen good reasons why Germany is an incompetent upstart; but however satisfactory and soothing to the English soul this line of philosophy may be, it drives no German merchantmen from the sea and no German drummers from the land.