What is "cast up"

Usage examples of "cast up".

Whereon they had not proceeded far, when, taking note that they were soaked through and through, and liberally splashed with the mud cast up by their nags' hooves (circumstances which are not of a kind to add to one's dignity), they, after long silence, the sky beginning to brighten a little, began to converse.

To which encomium he added that she knew how to manage a horse, fly a hawk, read, write and cast up accounts better than as if she were a merchant.

There was a full moon overhead, yet the vault of the sky at the moment was lurid with light cast up from the fires burning in the streets and open places of the city, and the chanting and chorusing of the old psalmody of Israel filled it with plaintive harmonies to which he could not but listen.

Bulwarks had been cast up, but as yet all the batteries had not been mounted with cannon.

There, on the dun, wet sands, beyond the foamy tongues of the surf, would lie the worn and curious driftage of alien shores, and trove that hur- ricanes had cast up from unsounded deeps.

It seemed to have been rudely cast up, convulsionized, as it were, by a violent unheaving of the lower strata.

From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little summs into a greater, without considering whether those little summes were rightly cast up or not.

In that charmed apartment, the most complicated social questions were cast up, got into the exact totals, and finally settled - if those concerned could only have been brought to know it.