1544 examples of turn up in sentences

"Imagine, my dear friend," returned the Governor, "who should turn up this evening but that sordid anchorite Pachymius, to whom the see was promised indeed, but who was reported to have been devoured by vermin in the desert.

From the first of my leaving England, I had no expectation of being liberated from this country before the expiration of about four years, and I have always been desirous that something should turn up that would afford me support by suitable employment; so that what I have now in view does not seem to clash with my former prospects.

The officials were greatly pleased with this offer; many things could turn up in three weeks, and for the time being the little waif was cared for.

Indeed, it is exhaustive to the verge of impropriety, considering that the man may possibly turn up alive and well at any moment.

We were relieved on getting nearer it and on being informed that it was merely an ear trumpet through which questions have to be put to deaf penitents who now and then turn up for general unravelment and absolution.

Something ought to turn up in another six months.

"Something will turn up, lad," he said, with steady conviction.

"But you saw him go away, and there was nothing to connect him with the murder, except the fact that he didn't turn up at the trial.

Mildmay took a turn up and down the little apartment.

The lamp will give a brilliant light, bright enough to suffice for the illumination of the whole place by itself, but at the end of twenty minutes the light will fade, and then when some one tries to turn up the wick a cap of fulminate of mercury will explode, the pomegranate will blow up and with it the dining-room, in the roof and floor of which I have concealed sacks of powder, so that no one shall escape.

V. wonder, marvel, admire; be surprised &c adj.; start; stare; open one's eyes, rub one's eyes, turn up one's eyes; gloar^; gape, open one's mouth, hold one's breath; look aghast, stand aghast, stand agog; look blank &c (disappointment) 509; tombe des nues

[Fr.]; put oneself forward; fish for compliments; give oneself airs &c (assume) 885; boast &c 884. render vain &c adj.; inspire with vanity &c n.; inflate, puff up, turn up, turn one's head.

It is well to keep the clothing about the neck and throat open, and sometimes to turn up the shirt sleeves so as to leave the wrists free.

"Oh, you'll turn up in Paris later, I supposeto get your things for Newport.

"I have to explain," he yelled in his gentlest manner, "that two of the boxers have failed to turn up.

"I happened to turn up instead.

Nobody knows what may turn up to render these out-of-the-way facts useful.

If she does not turn up at St. George again, they will know that I have failedand they will try again.

Here are the lines sent by the poet to his mistress on the painful occasion which we have described above, "after a casual turn up": Forgive me,and

Lee's army was permitted to recross the Potomac with all its trains and even with the captured prisoners, and McClellan lay waiting through the weeks for something to turn up.

Should a Million of Dice turn up twice together the same Number, the Wonder would be nothing in comparison with this.

You have your place in Nature, and you fill it; but it is not for you to judge of intelligences which move only on the upper planes.' "'Hollins,' said Shelldrake, 'Elviry's a good wife and a sensible woman, and I won't allow you to turn up your nose at her.'

He had said nothing about it until the last moment, hoping that the whale-boat would arrive or something turn up; but it could no longer be concealed.

MICAWBER, a character in "David Copperfield," a schemer whose schemes regularly came to grief, yet who always wakes up after his depression, and hopes something will turn up to his advantage.

Tha' darn nigger nebber turn up!"

1544 examples of  turn up  in sentences