Vertical, erect

Usage examples of upright.

But whatever may be the phases of the arts, there is the abiding principle of symmetry in the body of man, that goes erect, like an upright soul.

In another hour I had the se acock installed, the line freed from the keel and the boat floating upright in her shady berth.

The flower under observation at first diverged a little from its upright position, so as to occupy the open space caused by the removal of the adjoining flowers.

But from observing the effects of placing plants in the dark, in which case several shoots became in two or three days upright or nearly upright, and when brought back into the light again became rectangularly curved, we believe that the bending is in part due to apheliotropism, apparently somewhat opposed by apogeotropism.

As this latter movement occurred in complete darkness, and with peduncles arising from upright and from dependent branches, it cannot be due to apheliotropism or to epinasty, but must be attributed to geotropism.

It has been avidly read until Philip of Spain has earned the contempt of every upright man.

There was a heavy clang, a thundering crash, the ship trembled, tilted, heeled, and slowly, painfully, settled back upright as Bade hung onto the desk and Runckel dove for cover.

The bailiff motioned for me to step down, off the witness chair, and I tried desperately to walk upright back to the bench where Baggy was still hunkering down, like a stray dog in a hailstorm.

He would have fallen except that a beefy hand wrapped around his arm and effortlessly kept him upright.

Being, fortunately for himself, seven or eight inches shorter than I, he was able to stand upright, and he began to inspect my arm-chair, which he doubtless thought was meant for his own use.

All seemed to be going well, but as the cart turned the corner out of Bergamot Street, Muirne abruptly jerked bolt upright.

He rose to his feet on the physical impulse of his own rage, but by the time he was fully upright, Biset was gone.

The low words seemed to hiss through the gray of the early morning, and Anna bolted upright in the narrow and lumpy pallet bed, not that she had slept that well, with nightmares of various shadowy figures chasing her through improbable settings, none of which she could remember clearly.

The overcaptain bolted upright at the table, his blade clearing the sheath, his face twisted in anger.

The other childher by now were sitting boult upright, stiff as ramrods, and staring wild-eyed at Mickey.