He drew himself upright, his face white and stern.

From the mountain, our hero counted at least a hundred, all regularly shaped, with tops like that of table-land, and with even, regular sides, and upright attitudes.

Phipps was sitting bolt upright, his eyes wide open, motionless but breathing heavily.

Intellectually he stood at the head of the nation, and was a man of great integrity of character, as austere and upright as Guizot, having no toleration for freebooters and peculators.

Osmond Orgreave, the elegant and faintly mocking father of the brood, a handsome grizzled man of between fifty and sixty, was walking to and fro between the grand piano and the small upright piano in the farther half of the room.

To prevent the possibility of such deception, this upright magistrate undertook to compile and translate a body of Hindu and Mohammedan laws, and to form a digest of them in imitation of that of the Roman law framed by the order of the Emperor Justinian.

Yet they were not really bad men, those judges, they were upright and conscientious, good citizens, excellent fathers, dutiful sonsand they were able to appreciate poor Tales' situation better than Tales himself could.

The upright Cato indeed showed that strictly the Rhodians had committed no offence and asked whether the Romans were desirous to undertake the punishment of wishes and thoughts, and whether they could blame the nations for being apprehensive that Rome might allow herself all license if she had no longer any one to fear?

That upright patrician deemed the rough Sabine farmer the proper man to stem the current of the times; and he was not deceived in his estimate.

They sate bolt upright in chairs, and were as grave as our ancestors, as rabid, and doubtless as furiously in haste.

If one with sharp axe lop the boughs of a great oak and mar the glorious form, even in the perishing of the fruit thereof it yet giveth token of that it was; whether at the last it come even to the winter fire, or whether with upright pillars in a master's house it stand, to serve drear service within alien walls, and the place thereof knoweth it

But the boy lifted up his head upright and was first to essay the fight, seizing with inevitable grasp of both his hands the two serpents by the necks, and time, as he strangled them, forced the breath out of their monstrous forms.

He ridiculed the sugar rationI don't believe he has ever been short in his life; and the resources of the place were unequal to the task of providing tea of sufficient strength to admit of the spoon being stood upright in ita consistency to which, he said, he had grown accustomed.

Here is my aunt, in stronger spectacles, an old woman of fourscore years and more, but upright yet, and godmother to a real, living Betsey Trotwood.

These caves are not large enough for a man to stand upright, but to a people who do not appreciate the size of the heavenly bodies it requires no stretch of the imagination to believe that those bright disks came forth from caves eight feet wide.

In the seas of that coast, there are certain fish, known to the fishermen, which commonly swim upright in the water, having the faces and breasts of women.

The executioners then drove into the ground the pieces of wood which were intended to keep the cross upright, and made a few other similar preparations.

Then he sat bolt upright in his chair and eyed his visitor suspiciously.

His tread was elastic, his figure as upright as a boy's, and he swung a light cane in his hand as he walked.

" "Suspended?" gasped Mrs. Kingdom, pushing back the white streamer to the cap which she wore in memory of the late Mr. Kingdom, and sitting upright.

" Mr. Wilks sat upright and, in the mental struggle involved in taking in this insult in all its ramifications, did not notice until too late that Miss Nugent had filled his glass again.

29,30 That house for admiration I caused to build 31 and for a banner to hosts of men: 32 with carved work I fitted it; 33 the strong power of reverence for 34 the presence of Royalty 35 environs its walls; 36,37 the least thing not upright enters it not, 38 that evil may not make head.

A lamp in an upright sliding stand was on one side of her, and on the other stood a small table.

Though Blanche was some years older than Lionel, she looked, if anything, younger than he did, for she had the slim, upright figure, the pretty soft brown hair, and the delicate, finely modelled features which keep so many an Englishwoman of her type and class youngyoung, if not in years, yet young in everything else that counts.

let me say it myselfI was really always of good disposition, and in my dealings always strove to be upright and honest; how, otherwise, could you have loved me!