What is "risen up"

Usage examples of "risen up".

It topped the northern mountains with a dying scream, and swooped down to settle on the landing pad that had risen up from the gardens.

Two other seedlings, after their cotyledons had risen up and had closed together, were bent over and fastened so that they stood horizontally, with the lower surface of one cotyledon fully exposed to the zenith, and both were killed.

But Biteri knew that on occasion she looked far more like something risen up from hell!

And as Wratha's anxiety had risen up in her again, so she'd seen Karenstack, the last aerie.

I had risen up in bed, I bent forward: first surprise, then bewilderment, came over me.

For when Yara had risen up from his couch, the priest had seemed gigantically tall.

But then she launched into an account of how Bingtown had risen up against corrupt Chalcedean influence to free all the slaves within its borders and to offer them a chance to become full citizens of Bingtown.

It was more like an ocean, if an ocean could have risen up taller than the tallest mountain and stood before you, waiting, defying gravity and every other known law of physics.

The platform shuddered, wood splintering - Torvald screamed a warning - and Karsa knew without looking back over his shoulder that one of the creatures had just risen up, had just thrown itself bodily onto the raft, splitting it in two.

He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet.

She had risen up, instead, on tiptoe and, putting her hands behind his head, had pulled his mouth down so she could reach it with her own.