So soon as he recovered consciousness, he tried to get up to follow us, and was persuaded to lie still only when the general promised he would send for him in order that he might be present when we meet the French.

He was not gone far from the door when a slave, who belonged to some other person, attempted to get up to speak to him, but finding it impossible, by reason of the crowd that was about him, he made his way into the house, and putting himself into the hands of Calpurnia desired her to keep him safe till Cæsar's return, because he had matters of great importance to communicate.

They get something straight from heaven which is never known to people who sleep in stuffy houses and get up to wash in warm water.

The reason, however, was, to enable the camels to get up to the new encampment; their progress, though regular and continual, is very slow.

Come, spread thy savour on my frame No sweetness is so sweet; Till I get up to sing thy name Where all thy singers meet.

We told him, how we didn't know how we are going to manage to get up to Temple Camp in our launch, because it would only hold about seven or eight boys and we had twenty-four, not counting Captain Kidd, the parrot.

"How," I asked, "does the sap get up to the top of these great maples and elms?

NANCY DAWSON Nancy Dawson was so fine She wouldn't get up to serve the swine; She lies in bed till eight or nine, So it's Oh, poor Nancy Dawson.

A verse or some such work he may sometimes get up to, but seldom above the stature of an epigram, and that with some relief out of Martial, which is the ordinary companion of his pocket, and he reads him as he were inspired.

We get up to the top of the mountain, then I stand down on the ground.'

Members will get up to show that the great difficulty in the way of sanitary rules being observed, arises from the reluctance of the population to practise them.

"But it would take me six months to get up to speed.

Once we passed a big Austrian mortar, covered with tarpaulin, by the side of the road, and again two big 20-centimetre guns, which had not had time to get up to Brest-Litovsk.

Well might the old song say "The ships are all at the bar, They canna get up to Newcastle!" An old map of the Tyne shows a number of sand-banks down the lower reaches of the river, with ships aground on each, of them.

One or two of my men had not managed to get up to the gun position as yet.

Sir Thomas Randolph was extremely desirous to gain this important place; but the castle is situated on a very steep and lofty rock, so that it is difficult or almost impossible even to get up to the foot of the walls, much more to climb over them.

Caligula was content with hanging up his laws where his subjects could see them; and if they could not read them, they knew where they were, and might get at them, if, in their zeal to learn his will, they had used the same means to get up to them that those did who hung them there.

I had hardly sat down when a man wearing spurs, who trod heavily, entered the room and I heard Grim get up to greet him.

You get off 'ome and ask your missis to make you a nice cup o' good strong tea, and then get up to bed and sleep it off.

"I think she might get up to-morrow, in spite of Dr. Panton."

He told me that it would make him wretched, "to get up to-morrow, and remember that I was gone;" and that he loved me better than any body, for no one had been so indulgent, and had taken such pains to make him a good boy.

I never read one through thoroughly before, but it's odd what you get up to when you're alone, as I was.

I'll pretend I don't suspect anything, and get up to go into the tent.

The clock in the tower struck seven; the cattle returned home; still he was not there, and she had to get up to look after the cows.

Isabel, white, listless, had sunk into the nearest chair, and now said, quietly and wearily, noticing nothing: "Grandmother, do not get up to see me off in the morning.