Burning gas does not itself produce all the dirt which is found on the ceiling above it, but it causes upward streams of hot air, which carry up the dust and deposit it on the ceiling.
In cold weather fires are lighted in the sitting-room grates; these fires when lighted should warm the air in the chimneys above them and cause an upward draught in the chimney.
I shall not detail their wanderings backward and forward, upward and downward, through the vaulted galleries of that stupendous cavern!
The bear reared upward with a savage growl, and rushed forward to the attack.
Upward they beheld nothing but the beetling cliffs meeting together.
With these reflections he drew near, and rearing upward caught one of the bamboos in his huge paw, and shook it with violence.
The latter rose vertically upward for five hundred feet at least, and no doubt extended downward to as great a depth.
It was a white vapour that rose near one side of the valley, curling upward like steam.
It out-balanced the weight and tenacity of the sand; and after a good spell of pulling and tugging, Ossaroo's limbs were drawn upward and once more set free.
But it is sometimes easier to say go down than to do it; and to Karl's great consternation he saw at the first glance that he could no more go down than fly upward into the air.
There was silence; the old man's attitude, his upward gaze, his solemn emphasis, awed and puzzled Betty.
According to the account of my friend, Mr. Robert Chambers, in his Reekiana, it has been pulled downupward of sixty years.
I looked out of the window, and met his eye glaring upward like a tiger.
Intercepted Letters, or the Twopenny Post Bag, by Thomas Browne the younger, 1812: this has gone through upward of fourteen editions.
Stop, you are among friends," cried Charley, holding up both empty hands palm upward as a token of peace.
Each mother snake hasupward of twenty-five little ones at a time.
It was possible that one unacquainted with the course might grope onward, following the ledge instead of deserting it for a direct upward climb.
And near at hand was the long dorsal ridge that concealed the entrance to the cave, sloping rapidly upward and stretching away before him into shadow.
In another second I found myself rolling in the loose snow, with the pulk bottom upward beside me.
The splendid weather which prevailed during our upward voyage, enabled us to see all the interesting points, leaving only those parts which we missed in the few hours devoted to sleep, to give a little novelty to our return.
He should have invested thee with the rainbow of Iris, the winged feet of Mercury, and the upward pointing finger of Faith; and as for thy footstool, it should be a fleecy white cloud, changing its form with the changing breeze.
In the outward beauty of his creation, we catch a reflection of the divine image of the Creator, which refines the intellect, and lifts the soul upward to Him.
And tears are trembling in my eyes, Tears of intense delight; Whilst gazing upward to the skies, My heart o'erflows my sight.
It is foolish then to demand the concession of social equality; but it is quite as cowardly to give up obtaining it, as long as an upward way exists.
Of little avail, then, the wisdom and bounty of the few enlightened, when the serried ranks of the masses bar our upward way.
There is an upward slope from slavery, where a man is a thing, to freedom, where a man is a man.
Great clouds of heavy vapor rolled incessantly upward from the dripping jungle.
Upward to the blue vault of heaven, like the streaming mists that rise through the tropic moonlight from the hot llanos, goes the ceaseless cry of humanity.
At Rosario creek they left the great cañon and turned into the rugged defile which wound its tortuous course upward into the heights of the Barra Principal.
Then, with an upward glance at the sun, he gave a sharp command to his men.
Old plans, old ambitions, had seemed to lift with the lifting of the mortal curse which had rested upon him, and upward through the ashes of the past a tender flower of hope was pushing its way.
Quite my sentiments, too," murmured Fitch, rolling his eyesupward and attempting with poor success to assume a beatific expression.
You will find her always the same just, tolerant, wise Mother, leading her children upward as fast as they are able to journey.
The troubles which clustered thick about him after his first few months in Simití had seemed to hamper his freer limbs, and check his upward progress.
In the distance I marked the smoke curling upwardfrom huge factories, packing houses, and elevators.
Through the stillness of night the watery vapor streamed upward from garden and patio, and mingled with the scent of flushing roses and tropical buds in a fragrant mist suffused with the moon's yellow glow.
He thrust his long legs under the table and cast his eyes upward to the ceiling as he resumed: "The modern world is still in its spiritual infancy, and does not often speak the name of God.
She knew that the only obstacle that he was wrestling with in his upward progress was the universal belief in a power other than God, good, which is so firmly fixed in the human consciousness.
I had no difficulty, however, in reaching upward and rubbing the snow from the face of the gauge.
Under these conditions we could climb but slowly, allowing for the danger of sudden upward gusts.
If the downward sweep was breathless, what followed was breath-taking: once past the nadir of that giant swing, he was borne upward by an impetus steadily and sensibly slackening.
For upward of an hour he lay moveless, seeking oblivion in that very effort to preserve immobility, while the Assyrian, lunging heavily on her way, moaned and muttered tedious accompaniment to the chant of the working engines.
As if in resentment the girl glanced upward sharply, with clouded eyes.
One upward glance sufficed to dash his hopes: here was no way out, arduous though feasible; immediately above the fireplace the flue narrowed so that not even the most active man of normal stature might hope to negotiate its ascent.
The room, of irregular conformation, held upward of two hundred guests and habitués seated at tables large and small and so closely set together that waiters with difficulty navigated narrow and tortuous channels of communication.
Clear and definite lines of demarcation between good and evil, between possible and impossible modes of conduct, point the moral of advance, and turn the scale in the upward direction for the weak, the hesitating, and the imitative.
It is from the Styrian line of the Austrian house that all princes of that house who have reigned for four centuries and upward are descended.
Instantly he pressed the upward controls and his machine darted on towards the rear just in time to escape the tremendous blaze and roar as that string of loaded cars began to explode one after another.
By now, Orris, unconscious of the mischief his own upward shove had caused, sheered his machine aside, still climbing upward and onward, only to find three of the enemy scouts nearing rapidly and making ready for an encounter.
The Taube, with which Blaine was already partly familiar through prior captured machines among the Allies, was making its first upward curve, when a thought came to Blaine.
All at once a series of flashes came upward that Buck instantly understood as saying: "You must be of our side.
Occasional shots were fired upward by soldiers here and there.
An upward flip and the alert planes rose gently into the air, and Erwin was off.
Finally they righted hardly two hundred feet above the earth; then shot upward again at almost incredible speed.
Bangs, spiraling upward and back towards the Hun front, was sending forth flare after flare that was meaningless to Lafe, yet which was for some purpose.
So patent was this that Buck, who was nearest, shot upward and let drive at the Hun from below.
All at once Blaine saw to his left a spurt of flame shoot upward from below, and almost simultaneously a blinding glare arose from Brodno's plane.
Without a bit of trouble Blaine's triplane glided upward after a short slide over the rough level of No-Man's-Land, and he was off.
Unless they get us up yonder," pointing vaguely upward into the sky, "we will fetch her back all right.
But it would travel at a gentle upward trend and as rapidly as ever.
About this time there came a sudden blue flare as a solitary rocket shot upward from beyond the grove of trees that that marked the landing place within the enclosed area that formed this aerodrome.
In addition to the upward path through the heath to Rainbarrow and Mistover, there was a road which branched from the highway a short distance below the inn, and ascended to Mistover by a circuitous and easy incline.
But they were now at the frowning gates of Castle Gudenfels, with its lofty square pinnacled tower, and the curiosity of the young Count was dimmed by the admiration he felt for this great stronghold as he gazed upward at it.
The party climbed the flight of stone steps which led far upwardto the platform edged by the parapet from which the spring was to be made.
Alcman stood not far behind him, his hand, resting on his lyre, his gaze fixed upon the upwardjet of the fountain.
Adams, a noted collector and student of conchology, took upward of four hundred species.
The loose-hanging portion of this sac-like covering is somewhat thickened, and perhaps recurved upward upon itself.
In these two genera, when the animal is extended, as in crawling about the sand, the mantle curves upward and incloses a large portion of the shell itself.
Extend the index and second fingers of the right hand upward from the right side of the head.
Fiji sign: Assent is expressed, not by a downward nod as with ourselves, but by an upward nod; the head is jerked backward.
The extended hands, with finger tips upward and touching, the palms facing one another, and the wrists about two inches apart, are held before the chest.
Place the tips of the spread fingers of both hands against one another pointing upward before the body, leaving a space of from four to six inches between the wrists.
Raised up the hand in front of head and then arrested it a moment, palm outward, fingers extended, upward and forward--halt.
Archie was inclined to smile when he observed Bill's unkempt, sandy moustache, which was curiously given an upward twist at one side, and a downward twist at the other.
If it should get under the ship's bottom, it would exert an increasing upward pressure; and that pressure might be strong enough to lift the vessel clear of the fields.
The sick man could turn his head on his pillow and gaze upward into cool and deep recesses of green where the sun shifted and sifted golden patches of light, and where through branch and twig the stir of summer crooned a restful lullaby.
Its multitude of lance-head leaves swept outward and upward in countless succession to the feathery crests that stirred seventy feet overhead--seeming to brush the large, low-hanging stars that the moon had dimmed.
First it had thundered with the deafening exaggeration of confined space, then its echo had beaten against the clay-chink wall timbers and rolled upward to the rafters.
Dark hair crowned the head that she threw back to gaze upward into the venerable branches of the tree, and her eyes were as dark as her hair and as deep as a soft night sky.
Startled by that unexpected alarm from above, given as though the tree had been a living sentinel, the rifleman jerked his gun upward as he fired.
Then Rowlett loosened one arm and bent her headupward until he could crush his lips against hers and hold them there while he surfeited his own with an endlessly long kiss.
Day broke; and displayed his face cast upward in silent rapture, and his hands together; like Margaret's.
I cut swiftly upward with supple hand, and his dangled bleeding at the wrist, and his sword fell; it tinkled on the ground.
