Some twenty yards beyond Timothy they could just make out the ugly square nose and upstanding fin of a big fish sticking above the water.
Of course I do, Genie," answered the boy, flushing as red as his ruddy upstanding hair.
Of her several suitors she had cannily engineered into her father's favor a young man of pleasing appearance, good title and fortune, but quite without character behind his fierce upstanding mustache.
A portion of the pauldron which is designed for this glancing defence, and for this only, is the upstanding Neck- or Shoulder-guard which is so generally described as the Passe-guard.
The pauldrons are larger and theupstanding neck-guards more pronounced.
In inches we measure the rails and stanchions on her quarter, as our upstanding bow drives on.
Masts and funnels and deck erections, upstanding at varied rakes, emphasize the confused berthing and draw the eye to the condition of the mass of damaged shipping.
Only by close scrutiny, observing a hair-line that rises and falls on either side of the grey upstanding point, are we able to recognize our enemy.
Fearfully we scan the sea around, probing the line of each chance ripple for sight of an upstanding pin-point.
Septimus took off his hat, ran his fingers through his upstanding hair, re-covered his head, and looked at her helplessly.
But the creature only passed his fingers through his upstanding hair and smiled wanly.
I'm dreadfully sorry to have intruded upon you," he continued, twirling his cap nervously in his fingers while the breeze played through his upstanding hair.
Septimus bent down to examine the tooth, and the baby clutched a tiny fistful of upstanding hair as a reaper clutches a handful of wheat.
The touch thrilled him to the depths, and he flushed to his upstanding Struwel Peter hair.
He had never heard that a man's life was the life of his arteries, but well he knew the meaning of those big upstanding veins.
Those upstanding arteries and that sorely tried heart would not enable him to gather strength in the intervals between the rounds.
While this variety wants to be of good size and to have length, breadth and depth of body it is somewhat more upstanding than some of the other meat breeds, showing a definite slope of body downward from shoulders to tail.
The Runner wants to be decidedly upstanding and to be very reachy.
I stood staring at those rounded upstanding letters, not trusting myself to speak or move.
Day, elected as its Vice-President, and within a very few weeks had brought to the operating headquarters in Oswego a fineupstanding man, the late H.
Britton, in appearance, a big upstanding citizen, red of beard and clear of eye.
And this was the more remarkable because the Mucklow men were fine upstanding fellows, reasonably sober, and God-fearing Churchgoers.
Even the fine upstanding figure before me was no longer sharp enough to be expressive.
And a second glance intercepted Mrs. Lascelles on the steps, with her bold good looks and her fine upstanding carriage, cut clean as a diamond in that intensifying atmosphere, and hardly less dazzling to the eye.
But the two ridges of the ravine down which they climbed were rough with upstanding bowlders, and by going very cautiously and quietly, it was easily possible to approach the lines without being seen.
Behind came a heavy police wagon, drawn by an upstanding pair of bays.
He loved the big upstanding elms; loved the many gardens, and the flaunting flowers.
She put her arms about the bravely upstanding figure in its old-fashioned dolman.
As he sat in the train to Liverpool, the loss of his upstanding collar and stock made his open neck an easy prey to the draft.
His immaculate white shirt, stiff upstanding collar and stock, should be discarded for the time being.
For how can hunting produce benign results, since the genius of hunting is like a female Rakshasa, roaring horribly, intent on raw flesh, defiled with dust, with upstanding hair and lances for teeth.
Then the king, fatigued with toil and exertion, slowly going along, reached a great lake full of lotuses with straight upstanding stalks.
In the upstandingyellow tufts of his matted hair, the new moon enjoys the delight of touching the eastern mountain yellow in the evening twilight.
Now we're grown so effete that we almost shudder when some upstanding son of Belgium takes a rhinoceros whip and lashes a Congo native till the smashed ribs burst through his flesh.
There were grim rock isles and islets beyond counting, dim snow-covered ranges beyond, and everywhere upstanding cliffs too steep for snow, outjuts of headlands, and pinnacles and slivers of rock upthrust from the boiling sea.
Not even in my sleep have I ever dreamed there was such a man as you on his two legs upstanding in the world.
Lieutenant Rock was a familiar figure on the streets of Dawson and on the trails near by, a tall, upstanding Canadian with a record for unfailing good humor and relentless efficiency.
Near the top of the slope he met a familiar figure coming down--a tall, upstanding French-Canadian who gazed out at the world through friendly eyes.
They rode into the forest and, spreading out a few paces apart, followed the lead of the Bushman, who, mounted on an upstanding pony of fourteen hands three inches, looked an odd little figure.
At full length he threw himself down amid the half-shade of the upstanding wheat, there where it marked the boundary of Marti's waste acres, and peered with unblinking eyes into the gold-rimmed clouds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upstanding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
