Specimens to be photographed should be attended to at once, unless it is too late in the day, when they should be set aside in an upright position, and if necessary under a bell-jar, until the following day.
Under the bottom is a board or frame, to keep it in an upright position, &c.
When the hive is nearly full, and but one or two sheets come down, the lower edge will rest on the floor, and the other combs will keep it in an upright position, until the bees fasten it again.
When done coming out, the muslin at the bottom is drawn over it, and the frame is set in an upright position, and allowed to stand a few minutes for the bees to get quiet in the top.
There are others, white with age, and bearing no leaves, but which still firmly retain their upright position, with outstretched skeleton arms defying the tempest.
How these trees manage to keep an upright position, with such heavy loads in their tufted tops, is a never-ending marvel.
With even these slight accompaniments and plenty of fatigue, one is apt to fall asleep and make the best of it, whether upon the stone floor of a bungalow or in an upright position in the oscillating cars.
The movements were traced in the usual manner on a horizontal glass cover; a fine glass filament with little triangles of paper having been cemented in an upright position to the hypocotyls.
The after-effects of apogeotropism last for above half an hour; and horizontally-laid hypocotyls are sometimes thus carried temporarily beyond an upright position.
It had still to rise considerably, for when the last dot in the figure was made, it stood 32o from an upright position.
A main peduncle was secured to a stick in an upright position, and one of the upright sub-peduncles which had been observed circumnutating whilst the flower was expanded, continued to do so for at least 24 h.
The small blade sticking in the board which holds the handle in an upright position, as shown in Fig.
Fasten this to the cover near the back side in an upright position with a screw.
The lever swings on one arm of the staple and the other arm is so placed that when the lever is in an upright position, with the long arm at L', it will not fall because of its greater weight but stays in the position shown.
The coin in the right hand is quickly slipped into the guide of the nest of boxes, which was placed in an upright position, and the guide withdrawn, and dropped on the table.
They contain, also, a species of calamite, and a fossil called Equisetum columnare, which maintains an upright position in sandstone strata over a wide area.
It is worthy of remark that the Equisetum columnare of these Virginian rocks appears to be undistinguishable from the species found in the oolitic sandstones near Whitby in Yorkshire, where it also is met with in an upright position.
A flat board or plate l is fixed to the standard frame in an upright position, across the entire width of the machine; and this board or plate has a groove or opening cut along it opposite to the edge of the knife.
The fly k gives force to the blow, and preserves the tool in an upright position.
A single mast or derrick, more than seventy feet high, was placed in the centre of the avenue, and steadied in an upright position by guide-ropes spreading from the top in various directions.
The supposed robber had ceased his outcry, and was propped in an upright position against a heap of stones.
He was thoroughly awake now, and jerking Nugget to an upright position, he turned and ran out of the tent.
Some of them walked with feeble, tottering steps, as if they scarcely possessed the strength to retain an upright position, while others reeled about like drunken men.
When he reached them, he arose to an upright position, and hurried along with all possible speed, keeping in the edge of the ravine, as Dick had directed.
The Indian, although he exerted himself to the utmost, could not force him from an upright position, for Frank, like a cat, always fell feet foremost.
Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.
Defn: Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.
To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
She had a distance of about 600 yards to go, and when she was about half way she was delivered in anupright position of a child, which fell on the pavement and ruptured its funis in the fall.
Another class of equilibrists are those who maintain the upright position resting on their heads with their feet in the air.
It is true, that a person swimming in an upright position, advances more slowly, but as the method is more natural, the person is able to continue his course longer, and can remain with greater safety in the water.
The first object with Bernardi, is to enable the pupil to float in an upright position, and in this the head is made the great regulator of all the motions.
The level is used in putting up posts, palings, or work of any kind in an upright position.
Boil an egg hard, keeping it in an upright position (between cups set in the water or in some other way).
To lie flat on the floor on one's back and be lifted into an upright position by a pair of hands under the back of the head, keeping stiff all the time, is a favorite accomplishment.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upright position" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
