Got to one's feet

Usage examples of arose.

After panting awhile, he arose again and finished by rolling the stone end-over-end toward its destination.

The priest blessed him arose, genuflected before the Sacrament, recovered the golden vessel, and reattached it to the chain around his neck.

The robber that accosted Brother Francis was not in any obvious way one of the malformed, but that he came from the Valley of the Misborn was made evident when two hooded figures arose from behind a tangle of brush on the slope that overlooked the trail and hooted mockingly at the monk from ambush, while aiming at him with drawn bows.

The crowd arose and then knelt in a slow wave that followed the movement of the chair containing the frail old man in white who gestured his blessings to the people as the gold, black, purple, and red procession moved him slowly toward the throne.

As he arose, he found himself clutching the relic of the Saint behind him as if ashamed to display it.

At last he arose and limped ahead toward the forested patch, dividing his weight between his game leg and his staff.

Dom Paulo arose and moved to the front of the dais to stare at the faintly defined shape in the shadows.

It arose above the vapor and hovered for a moment, the moons glinting on its fusilage.

Three others echoed the word, but a murmur of dissent arose among the group.

The moons had sunk below the horizon, and the predawn blackness was complete, save for the glow that arose from a few streetlights and from the headlights of prowl-cycles that sputtered about the city, watching the sky.

When his mind strayed, or a thought arose, he brought his attention back to the picture.

Down the trail lay the village of Sanly Bowitts, and several miles beyond the village arose the flat-topped hill called the Mesa of Last Resort.

Blacktooth arose with a gasp and tried to genuflect with a leg that had gone to sleep.

He put his ear to the ground briefly, then arose and crept into the space between two boulders where he could not be seen except from the trail directly below.

The chaplain hailed him, and the turncoat to whom he had not yet been introduced arose expectantly, but the Nomad went straight to their hobbled horses.