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Usage examples of "tying up".
After she was done tying up the other woman, she walked back over to me.
A warlike tribe, they had been pushed out of the Black Hills by the Sioux and had come south, tying up with the still more warlike and bloody Kiowa.
When they reached Jamestown they learned that the tough little countryman still occupied his mean farm up-river, so they steered their ketch to his wharf, but it was in such sad condition that they feared tying up to it.
Later, when Anna was tying up the loose ends, it turned out the guide didn't even know the man's name.
The pipes rattled, and the windows were drafty, and my sisters were always tying up the telephone.
All right then, he went on, tying up the sack with the fake Potters clothes in it and leading the way back to the door, I make it three minutes until were supposed to leave.
Instead of tying up all the old loose ends, she had found another one: Why had Gray taken charge?
Not just the labor, they've got plenty of that, but the transport capacity it's tying up and the materials.
He watched the half-naked sailors bringing a ship skillfully in to its mooring, scrambling up into the rigging and furling the sails, heaving ropes over the side and tying up to the piers.