118 Verbs to Use for the Word up

The evening before the train reached Whoop-Up, he walked out from camp to try for an antelope, since they were short of fresh meat.

He's now telling the young man writing the mail-wrappers what kind of Cartoons should be got-up for this country.

Environment, habit-formation, training, education serve only to bring out the internal secretion make-up of the girl, or to suppress and distort and so spoil her.

I've been having a beautiful make-up.' 'Tell me,' and Nancy's tone was eager.

Everything will help Delafield if it means better people, in better homes, with better chances at giving their children the right bringing-up, but anything which merely means more people, or more money, or more business is likely to cost more than it comes to.

I've seen smash-ups before now; but I never yet saw a marriage dissolved like a business partnership.

But he knew the ups and downs of colonial fortunes too well to believe that Canada was ready for any such experiment.

My Lady does expect another hunt's up.

We have spoken so much of "giving up," that the Christian life has wrongly seemed to mean the giving-up of one's individuality, interests, powers.

Having taken from the sparrow only his make-up and grimace, you are just a clumsy understudy, a sort of vice-buffoon!

"You are Christians," she said to a little crowd that gathered round her one day, while she was watching the setting-up of a new door.

Ethelwolf defeated the enemy in one great battle, but too late to prevent a hold-up upon the island of Thanet, and afterwards at Shippey, near London, where the enemy settled himself.

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In many cases, when he had got his wheels locked, he had so excited his mules that they would run down the hill, cripple some of the men, break the wagon, cause a "smash-up" in the train, and perhaps destroy the very rations and clothes on which some poor soldier's life depended.

He could hear Mintie washing-up in the kitchen.

Plans and prospectsDick becomes home-sick, and Henri metaphysicalThe Indians attack the campA blow-up.

Just as I expected, when the boat reached Leavenworth, I found a general round-up of friends at the landing to receive us.

A battered old hamper, in which I carry my different character make-ups, stands in my dressing room.

But there were other lively times in store for Frank and Andy Bird, although neither of them suspected it just then, and believed that a period of calm would likely follow their hydroplane round-up.

He wears his little learning, unmade-up, puts it on before it was half finished, without pressing or smoothing.

"I'll make an agreement with you, that whichever of us catches the other slipping-up first in the New Year, shall be entitled to call for whatever he wants.

" "I can't say," rejoined the more ancient oracle, "that I quite mind all the ups and downs of it.

He examined his revolver carefully to make sure it was in working order and then said: "Time's up; may as well be moving.

" At this the poor woman fell a-crying again, and soon, all too soon, the turnkey cried "Time's up!"

In an hour or two at the most something was bound to happen, and the way in which I could make myself most useful seemed to be in delaying the break-up and escape of the party as long as possible.

118 Verbs to Use for the Word  up