What is "well up"

Usage examples of "well up".

Sometime after the sun was well up, I awoke in the Dart on the edge of a country road.

They stayed there for some time, until the sun was well up in the sky, then made their way back down into the jungle for some more to eat and drink.

Andi let the resentment she felt from being kicked well up and spill over.

She seized the mooring rope and hauled the skiff well up on the bank so that no capricious play of current could take it.

It looked like it workedthey cheered and celebrated, and the fighting stopped pretty well up and down the line.

At length, when the sun was well up, she rose in her bed, and her eyes opened.

But in the east, the bitten moon was well up, and the new moon a few days off.

There was a good sprinkling of imps for tinder, and the jotnar were well up to standard.

They can see much farther, I think, but not as well up close or in the dark.

I heard it, and knew no more--heard it as I sat petrified in that unknown cemetery in the hollow, amidst the crumbling stones and the falling tombs, the rank vegetation and the miasmal vapors-- heard it well up from the innermost depths of that damnable open sepulcher as I watched amorphous, necrophagous shadows dance beneath an accursed waning moon.

Andrews and I hastily snatched our worldly possessions--our overcoat, blanket, can, spoon, chessboard and men, yelled to some of our neighbors that they could have our hitherto much-treasured house, and running down to the gate, forced ourselves well up to the front of the crowd that was being assembled to go out.