What is "thrown up"

Usage examples of "thrown up".

Between the little lake and the town was the church, built in simple Protestant style, and composed of calcined stones, thrown up by volcanic action.

Certainly, if Raffles had continued alive and susceptible of further treatment when he arrived, and he had then imagined any disobedience to his orders on the part of Bulstrode, he would have made a strict inquiry, and if his conjecture had been verified he would have thrown up the case, in spite of his recent heavy obligation.

Barricades and intrenchments can be thrown up in different parts of the streets so as to impede the advance of the enemy, and a destructive fire can be poured upon them from the roofs and windows of the houses.

This was refused, but in the end I won the day, and a parchment was thrown up to me on the point of a lance.

The rampart of earth thrown up from the excavation was visible among the trees from the house, and a few steps brought us to the spot.

By the reduction of the heat of that part of the interior there will also be a shrinkage, which, in connection with the explosions, will cause the earth's solid crust to be thrown up in folds till whole continents appear.

Whether these great streaks were in part electrical phenomena similar to the aurora borealis, or entirely of intensely heated material thrown up by explosions within the sun's mass, they could not tell even from their point of vantage.

Dust spurted from under the car as they swung behind the bunker, just now thrown up with farming machines and covered with raw dirt.

Meantime while his whole attention was absorbed, the Parsee was kneeling beneath him on the ship's deck, and with face thrown up like Ahab's, was eyeing the same sun with him.

Meantime, whilehis wholeattention was absorbed, the Parsee was kneeling beneath him on the ship's deck, and with face thrown up like Ahab's, was eyeing the same sun with him.

When I first heard of it I was thrown up in the wind with all aback.

A crowd, a mob, not ledno, certainly not led, but he was there, near the front, thrown up and forwardby the beautiful young man.

A strong star fort was thrown up at a little distance from the southwest corner.

Whether to admit Hercules among us or not, concerning this I long remained dubious: for though according to the Greek mythologies, that antique Crockett and Kit Carson--that brawny doer of rejoicing good deeds, was swallowed down and thrown up by a whale.

The number of caps that were thrown up at the proclamation were not to be told.