Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
We went along the road all night in the dark and the adjutant kept riding up alongside my kitchen and saying, “You must put it out.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Minarets stuck up in the rain out of Adrianople across the mud flats.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The second matador slipped and the bull caught him through the belly and he hung on to the horn with one hand and held the other tight against the place, and the bull rammed him wham against the wall and the horn came out, and he lay in the sand, and then got up like crazy drunk and tried to slug the men carrying him away and yelled for his sword but he fainted.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Merriam-Webster
— in or into a higher position or level
especially : away from the center of the earth
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Macmillan
— in or towards a higher position
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Other Word Forms
upped
upping
ups
Usage
28 uses of ‘up’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
123 uses of ‘up’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
191 uses of ‘up’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
123 uses of ‘up’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle