What is "gets up"

Usage examples of "gets up".

But then he says the old horse do eat well, and the moment he's had his supper, down he goes, and never gets up till he's called.

He sleeps for twelve hours, gets up and walks around Manila to clear his head, goes back to work, and hammers away at it for thirty-six hours.

Godwin tells Mitch that the foundation should become more involved in the case, and that if Mark gets up on the witness stand, he might be able to convince a jury that what the boys did wasn't enough to land anybody in jail.

But there she is, as large as life, and in fact twenty pounds larger, and when I call the attention of Armand Fibleman, the gambler, to her, he gets up and tears right out of the joint as if he sees a ghost, for if there is one thing Armand Fibleman loathes and despises, it is a ghost.