No name could have given better assurance of good intentions and uprightconduct than that of Mr. Ewing.
His upright character, his recognized ability and his popular manners had given him a strong hold upon the people of his State.
The thick upright poles, of whatever tree, are stacked for "bobbin wood," and the thinner parts await the charcoal burners.
Just as the mass of birds reached the side of the pool, one of the immense nets, previously regulated by weights and springs, rose upright as it was freed from its fastenings by the fowler from a distance with a long rope.
The best of them is a brier; the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge.
Then had almost come to pass the divine delineation of ancient wickedness: The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Nor the monstrous fish cast ashore in Lincolnshire in 1564, which measured six yards between the eyes and had a tail fifteen feet broad; "twelve men stood upright in his mouth to get the Oyl.
He conducted before the revolution as an able and upright officer; but as the scene progressed he became identified with the terrorists, and went to the scaffold with Danton, Desmoulins, (q.
He stood upright but a moment, but in that moment, and despite the partial darkness, Landless recognized the misshapen figure.
Mullions=, upright bars of stone between the lights of a window.
Gable=, the upright triangular piece of masonry or woodwork at the end of a roof.
Who is the man that the people prefer to Jesus the upright and spotless?
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not; they must needs be borne, because they can not go.
At the same time princes and judges are so corrupt, that "the best of them is as a briar; the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge.
As they passed us we noticed that they sat upright in the middle of the lifeboat, the hoods of their cloaks drawn quite over their heads.
The upright man fulfilled the requirements of sacred ritual with the same mercantile punctuality with which he met his earthly obligations, and at times did more than was due, if the god had done so on his part.
He was upright and square-dealing, and nobody could say that Aaron Rushton had ever wilfully done him a wrong.
He ought to have the full advantage of that, and certainly he has seemed to be one of the most upright and straightforward boys in the entire school.
Striking most disagreeably on Clifford's auditory organs and the characteristic sensibility of his nerves, it caused him to start upright out of his chair.
Don Pepe, bolt upright in the chair, folded his hands peacefully on the hilt of his sword, standing perpendicular between his thighs, and answered that he did not know.
On the second evening an upright spiral of smoke (it could only have been from their camp-fire) was seen for the first time within memory of man standing up faintly upon the sky above a razor-backed ridge on the stony head.
On one side, General Montero, his bald head covered now by a plumed cocked hat, remained motionless on a skylight seat, a pair of big gauntleted hands folded on the hilt of the sabre standing uprightbetween his legs.
It is believed that your soul is so just that a prayer from you would cure the sickness of every beast, like the orison of the upright judge.
There, upright and motionless, in his shirt and trousers only, he stood waiting.
The Capataz, remembering that he was totally unarmed, stepped aside, and, effacing himself upright in a dark corner, waited with his eyes fixed on the door.
Linda's black figure detached itself upright on the light of the lantern with her arms raised above her head as though she were going to throw herself over.
It stood in an upright position like a man and had long scrawny arms and legs, and huge frightful claws which seemed to be reaching out to grab her.
After slowly chipping the plaster away over a foot or more in diameter, she found an upright seam.
I'm really quite harmless, but while I was climbing up here I noticed that the scaffold was held in an upright position by pegs driven into the wall, and that gave me an idea.
And Romola stood upright looking at him as she might have looked at some on-coming deadly force, to be met only by silent endurance.
He sat upright again for a minute, and then said, in the same tone as before, "Why should it not be?
It's ill standing upright with hunger to prop you.
It is inclined to be of rather upright growth, is stout and bushy, and is readily increased from cuttings planted in sandy soil in the open border.
It is of bold, portly, upright growth, and sends up shoots from the base of the plant.
An evergreen species, well adapted, from its rather stiff and upright growth, for planting alone.
Flowers in May, and is of partially upright habit; while C.
This is a fast growing shrub of fully 6 feet high, of loose, upright habit, and with pretty pinnate leaves.
Generally the Aronia Thorn forms a ratherupright and branchy specimen of neat proportions, and when studded with its milk-white flowers may be included amongst the most distinct and ornamental of the family.
It is a shrub-like tree, reaching a height of 20 feet, and with an upright habit of growth.
The plant, too, has altogether a faint reddish tinge, and is of upright growth.
A neat and erect-growing shrub of somewhat stiff and upright habit, and bearing tiny yellow flowers.
Oxyacantha stricta, with an upright and stiff habit of growth; C.
He preached no admonitions to upright behavior, declaring instead that recitation of the nembutsu was in itself sufficient evidence of a penitent spirit and right-minded intentions.
The kamoi, nageshi, and ramma have a structural as well as aesthetic obligation; they are the only solid lateral supports between the upright columns.
It was the figure of an Indian Trapper holding a gun, and accompanied by a dog, all depicted in their proper colours on a high, upright tablet set over the doorway of the store below.
