How To Use Own up In A Sentence

  • I advise you to own up at once.
  • So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder. A Child's History of England
  • It proved necessary to row ashore in a small dinghy, plunging through the hot spray past a Turkish battleship that had been moored for so long that the coral had grown up around it, immobilising it forever.
  • Founded in Sep of 2004, IrishEnvy. com has grown in to a premiere web portal upon a Internet for grown up as well as intelligent Notre Dame Fighting Irish entertainment discussion! Tunverified voracity
  • Watson had grown up on the rocky coast of New Brunswick in a village with the lyrical name Saint Andrews by the Sea. The Whale Warriors
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  • Enveloped in that smell, I would play grown up and sit in the office sometimes, studiously recording the numbers of the vehicles that came in for work on the twin ramps over the six-foot-deep pit where the mufflers were installed.
  • There were mussels and abalones and clams and rock-oysters, and great ocean-crabs that were thrown upon the beaches in stormy weather. CHAPTER XVIII
  • There are motifs, themes, and recurring melodies, all the things you'd expect from one song blown up to forty minutes.
  • We EXPECT this kind of flim flam stuff from the tax & spenders .. an we USED to DEPEND on the Republicans to be the grown up with budgets. The right-wing liberal
  • ‘He has grown up with that all-round technical ability,’ says Clifford.
  • We could, he implied, be fried, blown up, poisoned or atomised any day now.
  • By 8:00 she had thrown up four or five times, her head was killing her, she was a pathetic heap of sick-childness, and we headed for the pediatrician's office. Archive 2005-10-01
  • Most of the victims had dwelt in the crowded slums that had grown up around the factory on the outskirts of the city. Times, Sunday Times
  • She had grown up both bilingual and bicultural, speaking Maidu with her mother and English with her father, a Dutch settler who had come Wisconsin by covered wagon as a child.
  • Ben had heard that significant cry of alarm, and almost simultaneously the "plash" made by the little Portuguese as her body dropped down upon the water. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
  • So much of what has been written to date comes from an older generation that have not grown up in a digital universe, or whose exposure has been limited.
  • Under the original scheme, title reverted to the Spanish Crown upon the death of the ecomendero (estate owner), but in time heirs were allowed retain rights by inheritance. Mexico's Colonial Era - Part 2
  • And this refusal of the author to charge the people with their own stupidity and cupidity, this refusal of the people to own up and take responsibility, is symptomatic.
  • You need to own up to your fears and talk this all through together to build trust. The Sun
  • The rules have grown up through custom and are not laid down by law.
  • A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone. Chapter 3
  • He's grown up now into a beautiful pigmy goat, but Gilly still believes he's her baby and loves him to bits.
  • Cows swayed slowly in their sleep, a horse whinnied in its dream, and chickens bobbed up and down up in their nests atop rafters.
  • The eggs of the leipoa, or native pheasant, are found in singular – looking mounds of sand, thrown up by the bird in the midst of the scrubs, and often measuring several yards in circumference. An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
  • Now my brother was telling me we'd grown up within spitting distance of a nuclear dump.
  • The learned Sanskritist, H.H. Wilson, quotes the name Pippilika = ant-gold, given by the people of Little Thibet to the precious dust thrown up in the emmet heaps. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Time and again voting systems around the world have thrown up anomalous results. Times, Sunday Times
  • Each of us observes the world and the people with whom we come in contact through a lens refracted by our own upbringing, experiences and prejudices.
  • Sharing the dog has thrown up enough teething problems. Times, Sunday Times
  • The biography is a useful corrective to the myths that have grown up around this man.
  • When tomorrow turns in today, yesterday, and someday that no moreimportant in your memory, we suddenly realize that we r pushed forwardby time. This is not a train in still in which you may feel forwardwhen another train goes by. It is the truth that we've all grown up.And we become different.
  • On the last night in Kweilin, 550 barracks and shacks were blown up. The Last Empress
  • Most parents frown upon their children doing part-time jobs though they may benefit from it.
  • Arrigo was also dark, but his features were outlined by a sort of delicate grace that had evolved from adorable to dreamy as he'd grown up.
  • In effect, her job was simply to be Dawn Fraser, be inspiring to all those young Olympians who had grown up venerating her name.
  • A generation has grown up in the meantime and most of the eastern bloc has joined the EU. Times, Sunday Times
  • The writer's aim was to debunk the myth that had grown up around the actress.
  • Here and there the landscape was broken by dreary gray buildings that had been thrown up to house members of collective farms.
  • She would have wretched and thrown up at that very moment but luckily, she hadn't eaten anything today so she would be fit to scry.
  • And behold, Sharrkan and his men charged down upon the Infidels and cut off their retreat and wheeled and tourneyed among the ranks; when lo! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Lastly, if your dairy has grown up in the city, developable land within a country mile of it is scarce and trading at a premium.
  • Mrs. Honoria leaned her two round arms on the mezzanine rail, and looked long and earnestly down upon the caucussing lobby throng. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
  • An exaggerated sense of antiquarianism, anthopologism, confusion of roles between the ordained and the non-ordained, a limitless provision of space for experimentation -- and indeed, the tendency to look down upon some aspects of the development of the Liturgy in the second millennium -- were increasingly visible among certain liturgical schools. Clear Words of Msgr Ranjith on the Flaws of the Postconciliar Liturgical Reforms and the Need for a Reform of the Reform
  • A crisis has blown up over the President's latest speech.
  • A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt. Vanity Fair
  • Work quickly or keep the cutting material in a plastic bag blown up like a balloon and sealed.
  • A number of stories, partly fuelled by the British government's refusal to release all the relevant files, have grown up around Hess and his mission.
  • But the 21-year-old midfield ace says he has now grown up and turned over a new leaf. The Sun
  • Not a frown upon its face.
  • Their bodies continually going up and down upon perpetual fluxion, they never could live if their minds did the same, like the minds of stationary landsmen. Mary Anerley
  • Encourage a good brown upper crust with more coals on top in the final minutes. Into Africa - a social history of the East African Safari
  • The whole affair was blown up out of all proportion.
  • Orion's boyhood was spent in that wee little log hamlet of Jamestown up there among the "knobs" -- so called -- of East Tennessee. Chapters from My Autobiography
  • He was listed as an example of theological anti-Semitism by the Anti-Defamation League, when he called curses down upon Jews and labeled them the "scum of the earth" in his sermons. JPost.com - Front Page
  • A cascade of treasured memories come flooding back; my own upbringing taking in Soul Weekenders, warehouse parties, and stints as a pirate radio broadcaster.
  • The battle site was for many years recorded by a stone obelisk which stood on the bank of the river at Oldbridge but which was blown up in the early years of the 20th century.
  • After he saw a pal blown up, he pointed a gun at another squaddie. The Sun
  • The look was schoolmarm prissy, but sexy and was every grown up boy's fantasy of a saucy school mistress or strict female dominant leader like Margaret Thatcher.
  • A new town has grown up in this industrial district.
  • He's a known skirt-chaser to a degree that makes John Edwards look like an amateur by comparison, and I have heard rumors from more than one source that his "wife" Laurie has shown up at several Twin Cities ER's with unexplained facial bruises. Tomorrow's Swift-Boating Of Obama, Today!
  • It was traversed by broad avenues, in many places half grown up with brush-wood, where the beauties of former days used to take their stand to see the stag coursed with greyhounds, or to gain an aim at him with the cross-bow. The Waverley
  • The pipe music shrilled suddenly around her, seeming to come from the bushes at her very feet, and at the same moment the great beast slewed round and bore directly down upon her.
  • Also, they edit these films on moviolas or monitors not much bigger than your home computer, so they miss stuff that can only be seen when blown up to 60 feet.
  • They are poring over the shifting electoral background thrown up by the general election.
  • Her children have grown up and gone to work - her daughter in a lightbulb factory and her son in a gents' outfitters.
  • The current generation of athletes has grown up in an era of doping.
  • The little waves of the river glittered and shone and rolled lazily down upon the channel, or curled up in rippling eddies towards the shore. The Hills of the Shatemuc
  • He also told them a story called "The Wheat and the Tares," of a man who sowed good seed in a field, but when it sprung up and bore grain there were weeds growing among it called tares, for an enemy had sowed the seed at night and it had grown up with the wheat. Child's Story of the Bible
  • A video pre-confession from every bomber could still not explain why the subbasement was blown up ... 9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing
  • In a meadow on the hills that encompass the city, I found the American dandelion in bloom, and some large red clover, and started up some skylarks as I might start up the field sparrows in our own uplying fields. Winter Sunshine
  • The administrative reorganization of France into departments, sweeping away the jurisdictional jungle grown up over a millennium, survives not much altered to this day.
  • I believe we have to treat grown ups as adults, and everyone has to be free to make his or her own choices.
  • Time and again voting systems around the world have thrown up anomalous results. Times, Sunday Times
  • It chimes perfectly with what the younger generation have grown up thinking of as entertainment. Times, Sunday Times
  • I had this unerring belief in the infallibility of grown ups until I was about 12.
  • Let us suppose that a mine has been already opened; that a "lode" -- that is, a vein of quartz with metal in it -- has been discovered cropping out of the earth, and that it has been dug down upon from above, and dug in upon from the sea-cliffs. Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
  • Along with that have grown up a number of subsidiary industries, such as tinplate, wire and wire nails, and so on. India
  • He was also not put off by the very grown up thought of having to set up his own business.
  • He might have grown up in a raupo whare, but he left a legacy of fine New Plymouth buildings - a staggering 315 in total.
  • From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up. Middlesex
  • Which of us, after all, has grown up in an apartment block specifically built to house, on each of its eight floors, a different branch of our own family?
  • A gype, a glaik and a galoot were all commonly hurled jibes in our house, a home filled with tomfoolery and japes well beyond the time when we should all have grown up and known better.
  • And my uniform-case, of which he never let go, described a very beautiful parabola, and then came down upon the weigh-bridge, as the swiple of an uplifted flail comes down upon grain .... Jonah and Co.
  • She is about 13 years old, living proof of the tensions that have grown up over decades in Redfern, passing down the generations and exploding into a full-blown race riot.
  • Through his popularity, an entire subculture has grown up imitating Al and even parodying him.
  • A football league has grown up around the astroturf pitch next to the office and aerobics, boxercise and bodypump sessions are among the classes available at no extra charge.
  • It was My Lady -- formerly My Lady -- clad in embroidered short Spanish jacket, tightish velvet pantaloons, booted to the knees, pulled down upon her yellow hair a black soft hat, and hanging from the just-revealed belt around her slender waist, a revolver trifle. Desert Dust
  • Second, it seeks to reverse the insidious culture of division that has grown up around the existence of these principles.
  • All wrecks which are obviously not salvable should be blown up or otherwise destroyed.
  • Because young men who read instead of gamble are known to be "steadier" than the gamblers, and because children who read on Sunday make less noise and general row than those who will play tag in the neighbors 'front-yards, there has grown up this notion, that to read is in itself one of the virtuous acts. How to Do It
  • Levy also says that along with scheduling, figuring out the mystery that the grown up Hardy boys need to solve is also a key element to figure out before moving forward. Shawn Levy Gives Update on HARDY MEN – Collider.com
  • West Indies, and they have as many quarterings as a German prince, in his coat of arms; a quadroon looks down upon a mulatto, while a mulatto looks down upon a sambo, that is, half mulatto half negro, while a sambo in his turn looks down upon a nigger. Peter Simple
  • During our pantomimical conference, an old man often laid his head down upon the stones, and shutting his eyes for about half A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
  • Gwyneth strode to the head of the stairs and with a smug smile on her lips gazed down upon them as Maida scuttled behind her daughter's skirts. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • Cutting a path through the thickets of misrepresentation, misunderstanding and lunatic theorising that have grown up around the symbol of the Grail is no easy task.
  • Having grown up milking sheep with his father in order to make pecorino, Tony is also discerning concerning commercially-produced cheeses.
  • She can never walk into York without being stopped by one of her mothers or babies now grown up.
  • There would he lay till they would him descry, spancelled down upon a blossomy bed, at one foule stretch, amongst the daffydowndillies, the flowers of narcosis fourfettering his footlights, a halohedge of wild spuds hovering over him, epicures waltzing with gardenfillers, puritan shoots advancing to Aran chiefs. Finnegans Wake
  • She threw the money down upon the ground, and spurned it with her foot.
  • Hereupon in came the old woman and dragged my brother by his feet to a souterrain and threw him down upon a heap of dead bodies. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • true hackers subscribe to a code of ethics and look down upon crackers
  • But when the package was blown up in a controlled explosion it was found to be a harmless package of French-style bowling balls, or boules.
  • Air bases were attacked, ships were strafed and fuel dumps were blown up.
  • All olive-brown upper body, face and chest Green gray, brown under the belly and tail.
  • I question whether all the officers of the royal navy can bring together, from all their journals, a collection of so many wonderful escapes as this man has known upon the Thames, on which he has been a thousand and a thousand times on the point of perishing, sometimes by the terrours of foolish women in the same boat, sometimes by his own acknowledged imprudence in passing the river in the dark, and sometimes by shooting the bridge under which he has rencountered mountainous waves, and dreadful cataracts. The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
  • When tomorrow turns in today, yesterday, and someday that no moreimportant in your memory, we suddenly realize that we r pushed forwardby time. This is not a train in still in which you may feel forwardwhen another train goes by. It is the truth that we've all grown up.And we become different.
  • 'O let me lie down upon the bieldy side,' he cried; 'O dinna take me down!' Essays of Travel
  • For most of them, they have grown up hearing distant propagandist rumblings from the mainland all their life, and in the tradition of the boy who cried wolf, the fear is rather underwhelming.
  • Zanardo blames the problem on Italy's ageing population and says two generations have grown up watching TV with only one role model for women - the dollybird. The Guardian World News
  • But French yachties and tourists from Guadeloupe have discovered the place, and a cheerful touristic complex of restaurants and shops has grown up to service visitors.
  • New love is brightest, and long love is greatest; but revived love is the tenderest thing known upon earth.
  • In recent weeks, he has sung a duet with Usher at the Rockefeller Center tree lighting on NBC, shown up on Disney Channel's "So Random!" and crooned on NBC's "A Michael Bublé Christmas," but he's just getting started. A Very Bieber Christmas
  • More than a quarter of patients had grown up in homes with alcoholism or drub abuse, and a similar percentage had suffered beatings. John Thompson: The Stress of Talking About Race Is Nothing in Comparison to the Stress Imposed on Poor Kids
  • Having grown up and lived in a very multicultural area of London, I have been exposed to many forms of religion.
  • All of the handwriting data can be blown up, reduced and circumrotated.
  • They had for a long series of years been debarred from the privilege of religious worship, and as there was reason to fear that a continued neglect of divine ordinances would draw down upon them the judgments of offended heaven, they begged permission to go three days 'journey into the desert -- a place of seclusion -- where their sacrificial observances would neither suffer interruption nor give umbrage to the Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Female speaker I think it's been blown up out of all proportion.
  • The bully we mentioned in number 2, who has grown up a lot and become mates with my brother, notices this, and gives the lad a talking-to, and let's be honest, a thump.
  • Search local dealer inventory and private seller listings Having grown up with roundabouts (we called them "rotaries" in Massachusetts), I was not unprepared when they appeared in Colorado. Summit Daily News - Top Stories
  • Their weathered faces, full of character, look down upon Lee as he fixes a bridle.
  • It is thought faulty cordite caused the series of explosions which tore through the ship, raining debris down up to four miles away.
  • Yeah, and calling it ‘post-hardcore’ makes it sound like some kiddie's genre where they've all not shaved for a month in the hope their cumulative bumfluff makes them look like they're grown up.
  • There are Russian residents permitted in Balaklava; amongst them a Mr. Upton, son of the engineer who constructed the forts of Sebastopol, and who was taken prisoner when we first marched down upon that place. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
  • This time, though we were continually half-buried, there was no trough in which to be swept, and we drifted squarely down upon the upturned boat, badly smashing it as it was heaved inboard. Chapter 17
  • The ravine grew more and more beautiful, and an ascent through a dark wood of arrowy cryptomeria brought us to this village exquisitely situated, where a number of miniature ravines, industriously terraced for rice, come down upon the great chasm of the Kinugawa. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
  • He winced in pain as the whip came down upon him again and again.
  • He is a closet rock musician who hasn't grown up. Times, Sunday Times
  • The abdomen is blown up with carbon dioxide so that space exists between your pelvic organs. Alternative Health Care for Women
  • They were kindred souls, who had grown up together as neighbours, and naturally, had fallen in love.
  • Finally I've become a grown up.Live in courage and face the life with smile.
  • Fishes do not thrive in cold places, and those fishes suffer most in severe winters that have a stone in their head, as the chromis, the basse, the sciaena, and the braize; for owing to the stone they get frozen with the cold, and are thrown up on shore. The History of Animals
  • The original hospital buildings date back to the 1850s, but the site has lain empty for nearly five years while the Clements Park estate has grown up around it.
  • As with anyone who appears on television by choice, it would be churlish not to own up to at least a soupçon of vanity.
  • On account of his rank and his services, people pay the bestarred and betitled old brute a sort of reverence; and he looks down upon you and me, and exhibits his contempt for us, with a stupid and artless candour which is quite amusing to watch. The Book of Snobs
  • They trucked these, and many more like them, in from Hamtramck and they were tasty--yeastier than a regular donut and the not-overly-sweet prune filling helped my grown up taste buds handle the sugary richness. Archive 2008-02-01
  • My little HDTV prodigy is all grown up now ... ... Anyone Watching Dead Like Me?
  • The rain that came down upon the city was like a cloudburst; the last time the rain poured down like this was some ten years ago.
  • We poured tea into china cups feeling very grown up. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the research block, portraits of senior members of the Saudi royal family hang on the walls: impassive, accipitrine faces staring down upon the French scientists recruited to save the bird that is a royal obsession.
  • We reached out to one of our closest friends, Patty Howe Criner, who had grown up with Bill, and we asked her to work with Dick on the funeral arrangements. Living History
  • Encourage a good brown upper crust with more coals on top in the final minutes. Into Africa - a social history of the East African Safari
  • ‘By then I had seen many pictures by grown ups; I don't think it is as good as the one of a horse and cart which was quite uninfluenced.’
  • In smoke-coloured folds, closely matching the lowering dim canopy of vapour brooding overhead, the prairie spread about her, deepening to a basined valley in the middle distances, sweeping to a rise beyond, so that the edges of the basin looked down upon the town. The Dop Doctor
  • _Nelumbium luteum_, of which the former waves its beautiful flower on the surface of the river, while the latter, the queen, in fact, of the waters, proudly raises her magnificent crown upon a perpendicular footstalk. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
  • His abilities as an actor have been greatly blown up by the popular press.
  • Or else, well-fermented maslin, that is, provender formed of a mixture of various substances: grain, beans, vetches, hay, and salt. winnowed -- not as it is usually given to cattle before it is separated from the chaff; the grain shall be so abundant that it shall be given winnowed. shovel -- by which the grain was thrown up in the wind to separate it from the chaff. fan -- an instrument for winnowing. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • All of the children's parents knew one another, they had grown up together, but the four kids never became a true foursome until they all met when they were five years old.
  • One was blown up in Greengate by a bomb that went straight through the railway viaduct on to a parked bus.
  • The stunning singer admits she is shocked that men lust after her now she has grown up because she was overweight and unattractive as a teenager..
  • But to present it as useful in that it has shown up different work practices and rosters is a bit disingenuous.
  • Maybe it's because that grouping of people is so out of context these days… or that they look so gentrified almost, so adult, so grown up, so not rock starish.
  • After all, her parents had been in the hotel trade and she had grown up in catering.
  • In the meantime, the provisional festival programme has thrown up some intriguing possibilities for a couple of good nights on the town.
  • Even the concrete floor had cracked with age and clusters of weeds had grown up through the uneven apertures.
  • Also, I could speak Spanish pretty decently and was looking for a place very different from Jenison, Michigan -- the lily-white suburb where I had grown up. Craig Regester: Why Choose Detroit?
  • The most famous element of Swiss defense were the sabotage plans: At the moment of German invasion, the Simplon and St. Gotthard tunnels would be blown up, as well as all bridges over the Rhine, power stations, and air fields. Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #45
  • He knew that in time the poor silly little klipdachs would grow careless, and, anxious for a game at play, would get too far from their homes to skip back before he could be down upon them. In the Wilds of Africa
  • I know my age has thrown up an impassable block in our road together.
  • Almost certainly stuff will be blown up in his new film, and Eccleston joins a long line of English actors who have been called upon to play Hollywood baddies.
  • The issue was blown up out of all proportion.
  • One wrinkle is that agencies often don't own up to the costs of their rules, so REINS should also hold for rules that a member designates as particularly controversial, not just "major" ones. It's Time To Regulate The State
  • The lights shone down upon us as our cleats clanked against the metal bleachers.
  • When fully grown up, the offspring of birds and animals abandon their parents, and carve out a world of their own.
  • (_Goes inside circle and sits down up_ C. _in circle_.) The Thirteenth Chair
  • His dialogues border on the vulgar and the lewd and thanks to his ilk, we know why people look down upon the rustic.
  • The happy-go-lucky girl, from Washington, Tyne and Wear, has grown up to be a typical teenager who is a huge fan of pop star Gareth Gates, her mother Carol said.
  • Or it may simply be that dads would rather stay at the office, where everybody behaves like a grown up, than go home to the squirminess and bodily fluid-filled drudgery of family life. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • No large water infiltration has shown up to my knowledge, and the settling has stabilized within the expected limits. CORMORANT
  • But - hello - they're only 15, and they're only playing at being grown up.
  • The whole affair was blown up out of all proportion.
  • They've grown up and want us to realise it; this album is more low key and features an impressive array of instruments including a ukulele, zithers, brass and strings.
  • I'm totally glued to my screen and I'm supposed to be all grown up and stuff.
  • Cracking down upon terrorism including the East Turkistan Islamic Movement is a consensus reached among the international community, especially regional countries.
  • She has grown up in Seattle and is unexposed to the challenges of life in the wild, among the under-globalized.
  • He had come, in a way, to be a cliff-dweller himself, and those silent eyes would look down upon him, as if in surprise that after thousands of years a man had invaded the valley. Riders of the Purple Sage
  • The log cabin, set in a gall in the middle of an old field all grown up in sassafras, was not a very inviting-looking place; a few hens loitering about the new hen-house, a brood of half-grown chickens picking in the grass and watching the door, and a runty pig tied to a "stob," were the only signs of thrift; yet the face of the woman cleared up as she gazed about her and afar off, where the gleam of green made a pleasant spot, where the corn grew in the river bottom; for it was her home, and the best of all was she thought it belonged to them. Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2
  • Those stem cells could be grown up and used to get hair growing again on bald scalps.
  • Poverty is by no means something to be looked down upon, especially when one is earning a living through honest labour.
  • _upon all_, it were found that some of _such_ counts -- that is, that some of the misdemeanours -- charged, must be withdrawn from the consideration of the court, by reason of defects in either the counts themselves or the findings upon them, it cannot, in many cases, be supposed that the sentence could be the same as if the court had the duty thrown upon it of punishing _all the offences charged_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
  • The prophets who'd predicted the tempest had been proved correct: The frenzied waters had indeed thrown up an unprecedented catch. EVERVILLE
  • The lamaseries in Central Asia are, like the cathedrals in Europe, the most imposing monuments of religious life; but while the spires and domes of the latter tower above the teeming city and look down upon all the refinements and activities of civilization, these rude sanctuaries of Buddhism are frequently situated in the most secluded and sometimes even in the most inaccessible spots on the rugged Tibetan plateau. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
  • For palates that have grown up with an array of soft drinks and fruit juices, that flavor profile can be a little too intense.
  • Finally I've become a grown up.Live in courage and face the life with smile.
  • This morbid disposition is the parent of a continual apprehensiveness which is shown upon all sorts of occasions. Poise: How to Attain It
  • Like most of us, Jeannie had grown up believing that there was something intrinsically wrong with her and that, by way of atonement and being accepted, she had to work hard to be good.
  • The writer's aim was to debunk the myth that had grown up around the actress.
  • And so through the glamour thrown upon them by Indaba-zimbi's will, that Zulu Impi seemed to see me transfixed with an assegai which never touched me. Allan's Wife
  • The teacher swooped down upon the new students
  • Rather than snooping around and trying to retrieve it I thought it would be best to just own up and ask if you've seen it.
  • But at least you'll have shown up those Yankee imperialists!
  • It was a far cry from the shrimpers' boat George had grown up on.
  • They have blown up power pylons and blocked roads with booby-trapped vehicles.
  • Bernard Pendle also testified that, one night, ‘he heard a scrabbling at the window, whereat he then saw Susanna Misson come in, and jump down upon the floor.’
  • CCTV said the rescue work had been hindered by large amounts of coaldust thrown up by the explosion. 45 Chinese coalminers freed after cave-in that killed eight
  • When the game is over, they refer to their tablets and cast up their accounts; then they libate the gods and put a crown upon the happy winner. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
  • His frantic attempts to finesse the withdrawal failed, and have been shown up as cynical attempts to gain political advantage for himself when he should have been trying to help the country instead.
  • Either way, it has thrown up doubts for you. The Sun
  • If it had hit the Earth, it would have made a crater 100 miles across and thrown up an immense cloud of dust.
  • I looked down upon my beautifully tailored costume.
  • Our administrative law scholars put lots of their studies on the concrete administration behavior in the past, and look down upon the administrative factual behavior.

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