A dignified waiter with a shaven upper lip and grey whiskers put a sauceboat on the table.
It was a house of two storeys, but so far only the upper floor had been furnished.
His thin legs were hidden in light check trousers, and the companion waistcoat to Joseph's Coat graced the upper part of his body.
What she wants to understand is that the upper classes wouldn't look at her," pursued the miller.
We can scarcely think of a lot less likely to encourage the principles of patriotism and religion than that of a favourite upper servant in a foreign, heathen court.
There were two parties in Jerusalem, and the opposition was against the active reforming party, which now had the upper hand in the city.
At the end of the brief paddling the upper pool allowed them, she was first ashore.
Then they went together to the great warehouse, behind the grill of whose upper room MacDonald was writing.
Against the snow, plastered on a distant tree, the bullet hit, scattering the fine powder; then ricochetted, shrieking with increasing joy as it mounted the upper air.
Like phantoms of the past they glided by, a river's width away; then vanished around the upper bend.
Just as the ordinary workaday Paris will always centre about some point; so, through all periods of history, the Paris of the nobles and the upper classes converges towards some particular spot.
This distinction between the upper and lower spheres of social activity, emphasized by differences in their manner of living, necessarily implies that in the highest aristocracy there is real worth and some distinguishing merit.
Given a certain number of families of unequal fortune in any given space, you will see an aristocracy forming under your eyes; there will be the patricians, the upper classes, and yet other ranks below them.
Rising higher in the social scale, one finds just as much mud as at the lower end; but with this difference, at the upper end it is hard and gilded over.
And, in truth, the tinsel jargon which circulates among the upper ranks in every country yields mighty little gold to the crucible when washed in the ashes of literature or philosophy.
Where there is no such opening, however, they become diffused in the upper air of the room, and can escape only slowly by diving under the chimney-piece as that air is changed.
He gives instances where the cellar population had been ravaged by fever, whilst the population occupying the upper apartments of the same houses were untouched.
It is one of the most significant facts that has struggled into upper air.
The corner nearest to the church is particularly noticeable on account of a most picturesque gabled house, with a timber-framed upper floor--a style of construction exceedingly rare in these parts of Yorkshire.
The upper course of Staithes Beck consists of two streams, flowing through deep, richly-wooded ravines.
East Row Beck drops into this canyon in the form of a waterfall at the upper end, and then almost disappears among the enormous rocks strewn along its circumscribed course.
When the tide is up and the wharves are crowded with boats, this upper portion of Whitby Harbour is at its best, and to step from the railway compartment entered at King's Cross into this busy scene is an experience to be remembered.
Near at hand is the precipitous gorge of Upper Newton Dale, backed by Pickering Moor, and beyond are the heights of Northdale Rigg and Rosedale Common, with the blue outlines of Ralph Cross and Danby Head right on the horizon.
The upper end of the screw forms a split chuck which grips the measuring rods, while the part marked R is flatted off, and against this portion bears a threaded sleeve G, which acts as a key to keep the screw in position.
It consists of a body A on one end of which is a projection L serving as the upper bearing for the pivoted lever D.
In the upper end of the screw is driven the ball H for the sake of giving a neat appearance.
In the upper part of the engraving is shown the base, which is of machine steel, with the slot F milled for the reception of the fixed jaw of the caliper.
In the upper left-hand part of the engraving the details of a useful addition to the caliper are shown.
At the upper left-hand corner, is shown the construction of the parts, which are made of dimensions to suit the size of the scale and the square.
There are V-ways upon the upper edge of the latter, and the block B is split and arranged to clamp over the ways by the screw shown at S.
If in the case of the blood of unknown origin there is a faint red precipitate (of coagulated blood) leaving the upper liquid quite clear, the blood is of human origin.
In some instances the particles of the graphite may be seen with the aid of the microscope to project beyond the upper layer of ink.
The upper side is colored much to resemble sand, and the under side becomes nearly white.
It is abundant in all the lakes and ponds of the region of the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi river, where it shows a preference for quiet, cool and clear water and grass covered bottoms.
Behind him, Holmes set a cube in a suitable position and curled up on one of the side-wall bunks in the upper compartment of the spaceship.
The two girls used the lower compartment, the three men the upper and larger one.
In the upper compartment Keller took his place in the control-chair and took a trick of duty.
They followed Holmes, who did make his way back to the upper levels and ultimately to the ship without guidance.
Pass of Upper Beth-Horon from the South, the Scene of Many Hebron Victories, III.
It consists of two circular stones, one of which is placed on top of the other, the upper and lower surfaces being flat.
From the center of the lower stone a strong pin of wood passes through a funnel-shaped hole in the upper stone.
On the surface of the upper stone near the circumference, a handle is fixed by which the stone is turned.
And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the high way of the fuller's field.
The underside of the upperstone is slightly concave, fitting into the convex surface of the lower stone.
I searched, and found it behind the upper right corner of the picture.
That is, there was a picture frame and a pair of dark glasses that took up most of the picture, with the lower part of a forehead and the upper part of a nose.
The blasts in the desolate upper reach of the dale were so fierce that a shepherd on the path leading over the pass to Marly Head could scarcely hold himself upright against them.
He mounted the ladder-stairs leading to the upper room.
Tempestuous sounds filled all the upper and the lower air.
His mystical sense had beheld the Lord in that small upper room; had seen as it were the sacred hands breaking to those two poor creatures the sacrament of love.
And within--in one of those upper rooms--those soft deep eyes, at rest in sleep?
And yet from childhood her face had been a winning one--with its childish upper lip and its thin oval, its delicate brunette colour, and the lovely clearness of its brown eyes.
Its upper windows were open; the sun was on its lichened porch, and on the silver stem of the birch tree which rose from the mossy grass beside it.
And Catharine, who had just descended from an upper room, went quickly to a nurse's wallet which had been left on a table in the kitchen, and took thence an antiseptic dressing and some bandaging.
This Church possesses half the elementary schools, and is the legal religion of the great public schools which shape the ruling upper class.
Lest in that upper realm, you have nothing to wear!
Amongst the Indians along the Gulf, a greater degree of skill was displayed than with those on the upper waters of the Mississippi, and on the lakes.
The two upper stories, however, are narrowed by the high, steep roof, so that the true front of the house is one of the gables.
What fate hath reft thee from the upper air and condemned the heavens to so deep mourning?
Page 159 woman, so the story goes, who died to save the life of a loved husband, was recalled to the upper world by the might of Hercules.
On her burnished helmet the Triton-born goddess wore a carved figure of Typhon, the upper part of his body lifeless, the lower limbs yet writhing, part dead, part quick.
Why hast thou left thy seat and how darest thou pollute the upper world with thy hellish team?
Now the sun was dipped in Ocean and misty night scattering sleep had brought for mortals ease and leisure in her black two-horsed chariot; when Pluto, warned by his brother, made his way to the upper air.
For the ends cut of blue satin two pieces each six inches and a half wide and seven inches and a quarter high, fold down the upper edge an inch and a quarter wide on the wrong side, and gather it twice.
An unquestioning, simple freedom prevailed in these upper reaches which Joan fancied might be dangerous enough (unless it had the effect of putting people, as it were, on honor).
The sound of the overturned chair brought Effie May on a reconnoitering expedition to the upperlanding of the stairs, which commanded an unsuspected view of the library.
Kansas, with missionaries out of China, with ex-courtesans from the Paris streets, with those most sheltered of all aristocrats, the women of the upper French bourgeoisie.
This disease is particularly prevalent in Southern France, Spain, Upper Italy and Switzerland.
Born of middle-class parents he went through high school and ranked in the upper third of his class for scholarship.
He has a minute description with map of the Upper Arkansas valley and its glaciation, and of the old lake system of the West.
Thus you would have these primary schools with plenty of air and light, which you can get in the upper story, and children would be glad to come early, and remain until three or four o'clock, or even later in the afternoon.
Upper view of the skull of a wild Florida turkey (Meleagris g.
Audubon calls it the "breast sponge," and it covers the entire upper part of the breast and crop-cavity.
In other varieties of turkeys three inches or less of the upper end of the beard is grayish, while those of the Brazos bottoms were more bunchy and black up to the skin of the breast.
Transition and Upper Sonoran zones in the mountains of southern Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, western Texas, northern Sonora, and Chihuahua.
National Museum collection, about whose identity there can be no possible doubt, were collected on Upper Lynx Creek, Arizona, in the spring of 1870, by Dr.
He stated that the peculiarities of the new species consist chiefly in the creamy white tips of the tail feathers and of the upper tail coverts, with some other points of minor importance.
The Prince was then conducted by a back staircase to an upper chamber strongly barred, where he remained guarded by M.
Blunt as soon as he reached the upper floor, after seeing to the last strengthenings being given to the two doors.
Yes; one who felt that the enemy would get the upper hand.
I want to know if there's anything more that I can do to strengthen the upper works.
Two shrill whistles mean, make for the upper windows.
As soon as the upper part was darkened by the figure of a man, Oliver Lynn fired, there was a yell, and the man stood fast.
I was wildly excited and delirious from my wound, and there was that idea pressing upon me that one of the stink-pots would roll down blazing from the upper floor and explode the cartridges.
The position he denominated "heah" was pointed out by the Chinaman with his two thumbs, one placed on his shoulder-blade, the other on the upper part of his right chest.
The men are fighting splendidly now, and I want them to go on till such time as it is necessary to get inside and continue the defence from the upper windows.
What we want to see now is whether the enemy are on the upper floor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
