What is "passing up"

Usage examples of "passing up".

As Westmacott was passing up the High Street, a black shadow fell athwart the light that streamed from the door of the Bell Inn, and out through the doorway lurched Mr.

The storm, passing up Chesapeake Bay, was expected to become New England's first nor'easter of the season.

Remember you're passing up the two most obvious suspects of all--Jeremy and Hassard--two tough, intelligent birds who, if they were the killers, were clever enough to see that _nothing_ pointed the finger against them.

Fast and far as they had rattled and clattered along the iron track, they might just as well, as regarded Hepzibah's mental images, have been passing up and down Pyncheon Street.

A while went by and I saw that we had left the city, and were passing up a steep hill beneath the shadow of mighty cedar trees.

But there was an evil feeling in the air, as if things might indeed be passing up and down that eyes could not see.

Tak recalled her as the dark-haired beauty with silver eyes, passing in her moon chariot of ebony and chromium, drawn by stallions black and white, tended by her guard, also black and white, passing up the Avenue of Heaven, rivaling even Sarasvati in her glory.

I observed a great number of lodges on the opposite side at some distance below, and several Indians on the opposite bank passing up to where Captain Lewis was with the canoes.