What is "up"

Usage examples of "up".

But the fateful decisions secretly made, the intrigues, the treachery, the motives and the aberrations which led up to them, the parts played by the principal actors behind the scenes, the extent of the terror they exercised and their technique of organizing it - all this and much more remained largely hidden from us until the secret German papers turned up.

In the middle of my attempting to explain that Darlene was not the air-conditioning repairman, Abey Fields came up.

Tuck looked to Abo, who seemed satisfied that the chief was backing him up.

So there they abode a space looking down on the square and its throng, and the bells, which had been ringing when they came up, now ceased a while.

There was a pain as of abrading flesh, and it came up: a fishlike creature with a disk for a head, myriad tiny teeth projecting.

It was possible that Abraxas was nowhere Remo could reach him before the precious minutes were up.

Not knowing exactly what excuse to make, but hoping for something to turn up, the mullah took a lantern and followed him out, taking the lead as they passed through the gap in the fence and drew abreast of the mosque portico.

If, in adopting the Constitution, nothing was done but acceding to a compact, nothing would seem necessary, in order to break it up, but to secede from the same compact.

But even if the market falls and some of the acceptors break, the banks will have to pay up.

Almost two years ago he had upped and left Acme, Texas, to go out into the wide open world, only to find his own shrunk down to the confining cockpit of a B-17 bomber.

Giving up, she tied Acorn to the back, retrieved the offside ribbon, then climbed into the phaeton.

Tyrold did justice to the sincerity of this offer: and the cheerful acquiescence of lessened reluctance, raised her higher in that esteem to which her constant mind invariably looked up, as the summit of her chosen ambition.

There is a case on record of a boy of fourteen who was shot in the right shoulder, the bullet entering through the right upper border of the trapezius, two inches from the acromion process.

His upper lip was furry and mobile, making his face more expressive than those of earlier adapid species.

The Adelantado, hearing the cries, left Castaneda in his place to collect the people who had not come up, who were at least half the force, and went himself to see if they were in any danger.