What is "running up"

Usage examples of "running up".

They were sniffing around the shop door and running up and down the outside staircase to the apartment.

Why, you King-Post, you, I suppose you would have every man in the world go about with a small lightning-rod running up the corner of his hat, like a militia officer's skewered feather, and trailing behind like his sash.

One of Kahn's speculations had been that the natural form of human government was empire, and the natural tendency of an empire was to expand, there being no natural limit to that expansion save running up against another empire of equal or greater strength.

You might wear out your index-finger running up and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word.

She had the great bell rung, so everyone went running up to the castle to see .

Still I stood where she had parted from me, and was so standing when a key grated in the lock and Nayland Smith came running up.

Perhaps with a wire running up inside his shirt to a tiny microphone somewhere.

Thanks to Tisiphone, she knew Labin was willing to go to thirty or even thirty-five percent to secure her services, and while she wasn't particularly interested in running up the price, neither did she wish to appear too eager.

Behind the merry scene stood the gray, hoary old palace, a steep flight of stone steps, and a long, open, stone-arched gallery, which evidently led to the kitchen beyond, for along it hurried serving- men, running up and down the tall flight of steps, and bearing trays and dishes and cups and flagons.

LE BRET (entering, and running up to Cyrano): They're looking for you!

My uncle at once showed me the way, running up the steps like a schoolboy.

There was a great deal of bargaining, of running up and beating down.