As soon as Raiko had taken the jar into his hands, a radiance like that of sunlight suddenly shone round the old men, and they vanished upwardsfrom sight till their shining figures were lost in the clouds.
They are manufactured in sizes from 6 feet in diameter to upwards of fifty feet; and with buckets of from 6 inches to 10 feet in width.
The largest nozzles used, even in the jumbo plants of the Far West, rarely exceed 10 inches in diameter; and the pipe conveying water to such a nozzle is upwards of eight feet in diameter.
Even longitudinally, the bottom of the "gully" had a sloping inclination; for the ravine itself tended upwards until it became extinguished in the convergence of its inclosing ridges.
No one could have gone beyond that point, without either walking straight into the water, or keeping along the strip of sea-beach, upwards or downwards.
There was an elderly man with a beard like a goat's, gazing upwards at Doctor Chirnside with an air which struck me as critical.
Duke Eberhard Ludwig was duly wedded to an irreproachable Princess of Baden-Durlach (Johanna Elizabeth) upwards of thirty years ago; and he duly produced one Son in consequence, with other good results to himself and her.
One fish is represented with its head pointing upwards towards the North Polar Star, the other is shown at right angles, swimming along the line of the ecliptic, or path of the sun.
With an involuntary shudder, the climber turned and made his way upwards and sideways again, before venturing to descend once more.
But with sunset the wind freshened into a brisk gale, and heavy clouds rolled upwards from the western horizon.
With a climber's love of a rocky height he looked upwards as they walked, and she noted the direction of his gaze.
It was not flat, but inclined upwards from the face of the cliff, thus forming a shelf of solid stone.
A man of upwards of forty cannot waste his time in communicating matter of that indifference.
This sign o marks those who have been two years or upwards in the family.
From Wigan the rebel prisoners were conducted to Warrington, where a division took place, and upwards of a hundred were sent on to London, guarded by several detachments of horse.
Sixteen miles and upwards had been accomplished in a marvellously short space of time, but then all were well mounted.
Time and again, in the glad springtime and the fresh summer weather, he had driven his flock upwards to eat the grass that grew in the clefts of the rocks and on the broad green alps.
His little lantern did not show much light, and as he went higher upwards he lost sight of the moon.
Mrs. Gilmore, now upwards of fifty years old, was then seized and thrown violently upon the floor.
It now numbers two hundred and forty-three members, and has been instrumental in founding a museum containing upwards of eighty thousand archaeological specimens, besides botanical, and geological, and other collections.
Señor Riaño's handbook to the Spanish collection in the South Kensington Museum gives a list with details of the specimens there exhibited, numbering upwards of twenty panels and borders for furniture.
Whenever she opens a new salon, Adrien spends the entire day on her feet, doing upwards of 35 facials with her own pale, delicate hands.
Having finished the "prepare to mount" stage, she straightens her left knee by lightly springing upwards off the ground by means of her right foot, and at the same time pressing on her cavalier's shoulder so as to straighten her left arm.
Fully Illustrated with upwards of 250 Reproductions of Photographs and Drawings.
In November, that year, I went to Paris, where I resided upwards of two months in the character of an American gentleman.
Recurring to the actual and probable produce of the duties already laid, he attempted to show that the additional sum of upwards of eight hundred thousand dollars, contemplated to be raised by this bill, is not necessary.
The old Erie Canal cost upwards of eight millions, which was deemed an immense sum at that day.
At Chinon upwards of one hundred Jews suffered the extreme penalty of the law for such groundless crimes.
Upwards of 150 torchbearers assembled at the castle as darkness set in, and separated into two parties, one band proceeding to Invergeldie, and the other remaining at Balmoral.
The wealth which Murat has collected, during his military service, and by his matrimonial campaign, is rated at upwards of fifty millions of livres.
MY LORD:--Upwards of two months after my visit to General Murat, I was surprised at the appearance of M.
Besides the individuals left behind by Joubert; it is said that upwards of one hundred persons of Brune's suite have been ordered for the same destination.
Since the reign of Bonaparte, or for these last five years, upwards of half the revenue of the Spanish monarchy has either been brought into our National Treasury or into the privy purse of the Bonaparte family.
Thanks to his patriotism, upwards of two hundred individuals of both sexes were denounced, transferred to the Conciergerie prison, and afterwards guillotined.
All sorts and conditions of men are dealt with--adherents who have come over from the Royalist camp, as well as those who have won their way upwards as soldiers, as did Napoleon himself.
As the patriotism of the husband, more than the charms of the wife, was known to have produced this indecent fracas, which for upwards of a week interrupted the plays, all anti-Jacobins united to restore order.
Even at the expense of getting more dust than I can manage well with, I think I must leave my window open," pointing upwards to the clock-room.
He guided them down past West Point upwards of a mile, when he turned up the hill by a footpath, which, in half an hour, brought the party to a small hut, through the crevices in the wall of which a light was visible.
Mauro was close behind him, and touched him on the shoulder and pointed upwards to hasten his movements.
The Romans always stab upwards under the ribs,' said San Giacinto.
The smile did not extend upwards above the nostrils, and there was something almost sinister in the still black eyes.
When the egg is turned with the white poleupwards a tendency of the white protoplasm to flow down again manifests itself.
It is well known that many animals living near the surface of the ocean or freshwater lakes, have a tendency to migrate upwards towards evening and downwards in the morning and during the day.
The whole determinant system of an id, as I conceive it, is in a state of continual fluctuation upwards and downwards.
The character which is transmitted in this case is not the tendency to migrate periodically upwards and downwards, but the positive heliotropism.
Jersey, who cultivated upwards of 150 varieties of wheat, which he claimed were as pure as those of any other agriculturalist.
This hydroid consists of a long straight main stem which grows vertically upwards and which has at regular intervals very fine and short bristle-like lateral branches, on the upper side of which the polyps grow.
In the lower one gravity is of the earthly type and is shown by bodies falling and roots curving downwards: in the upper world bodies fall upwards and roots curve in the same direction.
In the intellectual domain the primary object is to reach high summits from which wide surveys are possible, to reach them toiling honestly upwards by way of experience, and then not to turn dizzy when a summit is gained.
It is possible, in this case, that the tendency of the black part of the egg to rotate upwards along the surface of the egg leads to a separation of its first cells, such a separation leading to the formation of twins.
The faint light from the sky is sufficient to cause animals which are in a high degree positively heliotropic to move vertically upwards towards the light, as experiments with such pelagic animals, e.
Dr Beck says he has counted upwards of 30 of these mythological Triebe (tendencies) with which primitive man has been endowed.
They divided it into halves, thrust the upper half into the pipe, attached the lower one to it, and then pushed the whole upwards to the full extent of Aylmer's reach.
The brute wheeled, not down-hill towards the other riders, but slanting back and still upwards in the direction of Awara and the camp.
Sadly out from the cage the dead body he drew, When, to his amazement, straight upwards it flew And perched on a tree.
The oval face was barely shadowed by a thin beard curling in an oiled tuft on either side of the retreating chin, and the only Mephistophelian feature was the narrow line of moustache waxed upwards towards the eyes.
There is no gayer crowd in the universe than this of Simla out for a holiday; though, even as it passed downward, a man with a sober face and a telegram in his pocket passed upwards on a sorry errand.
A little sun-baked fireplace against which she stumbled dissolved to sheer mud ere she had recovered her balance, and a loosened brick on the last step upwards rolled down, beaten from its place ere her foot touched it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upwards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: above; aloft; aloof; high; over; overhead; skyward; tiptoe; uphill; upright; upstairs; uptown; upward
