How To Use Well up In A Sentence
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The footwell was perpetually swamped now, my forearms were pumped from choking the oars in a death grip, and dime-size blisters had begun to well up under the calluses on my palms.
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Panic began to well up in me, and I spent vital seconds cursing myself for having thick burglar-proof bars fitted over the glass.
A CONVICTION OF GUILT
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Her eyes had begun to swell up again, why he was making her cry like this, she didn't know.
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The children were constantly coughing, had runny noses, and their eyes would swell up.
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They might dwell upon the fact that you were so much together, and that you had such opportunities -- mark me, Reginald, _opportunities_ -- for tampering with the one solitary life which stood between you and fortune.
Run to Earth A Novel
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Then we saw the alligator swell up.
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Tolstoy tried to mix domesticity and family life, but he would come downstairs after writing and see his family playing and his eyes would well up.
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And poke out his eye, and swell up his tongue?
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When you develop a throat infection or catch a cold the glands in the neck swell up.
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The sound reproduction is quite good, too, in spite of some odd balances: certain brass instruments are pushed back too far, while the clarinet and other less voluminous instruments are well up front.
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What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection!
Vanity Fair
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Y: Moses said: "Your tryst is the Day of the Festival, and let the people be assembled when the sun is well up.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
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For the second cut, cut completely through the branch from inside the crotch well up from the ridge of bark joining the two branches.
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The Christmas display in Birmingham is well up to its usual unimpressive standards.
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My ear lobes will swell up.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is not the task of catallactic theory to depict in detail the calamities of panicky days and weeks and to dwell upon their sometimes grotesque aspects.
_Politik
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‘Cause sometimes the habits of a decade and more well up, lapping gently around my brainpan.
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Rubenstein's voice wobbles and her dark eyes well up.
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As she victoriously puts my phone down, I feel a potent mix of relief and gratefulness well up in my chest.
Aisling Carroll: Why My BFFs Are My Chore Whores
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There was a very strong demand for good quality rams with a complete clearance of the 58 shearling rams on offer; while the demand for ram lambs was not as strong there was still an 80% clearance, with average prices well up on last year.
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With a start, he realized that he was still in the hayloft, and the sun was well up.
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Her arm was beginning to swell up where the bee had stung her.
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He remembered watching her passionate kiss with Nicholas and felt a jealous rage well up inside.
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I shall not dwell upon the career of Sophia -- who has pursued her life in Paris very wisely, shrewdly, circumspectly, not to say commercially, thus showing how honest bourgeois ancestry can triumph over the flightiest of modern temperaments.
Personality in Literature
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Our river is well up now, about twice as wide as usual and it is thundering over the weir.
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With a start, he realized that he was still in the hayloft, and the sun was well up.
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He has shot up the weights by more than a stone but this smart Flat stayer looks well up to this standard.
The Sun
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Set to guitar mode it gave the sound bags of depth while remaining well up front.
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Songs well up from the subliminal nickelodeon in my head.
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I sank deeper into my pit of shyness as I forced myself not to dwell upon her true intentions.
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If war were the qoeftion, he would talk of travci« ling; if diplomatic concerns were upon the carpet, he woald reUfia the manners, or inquire into the local peculiarities of the country; oc if the ftate of affairs at home were in difcuHion, he would dwell upon
The Monthly Review
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As problems at home well up, she diverts attention by striding the world stage.
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Thousands flocked to the three resorts last weekend and business takings were well up.
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Lake trout, splakes and brookies are biting well up north, and also try Echo in the morning.
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I have two jokes in my repertoire and one sarcastic prayer which always goes down well up North.
The Times Literary Supplement
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My ears buzz, my eyes well up, saliva builds up in my mouth until it drips down my chin.
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Prat was well up in the ensuing forward breakaway, and it was he who scored his side's second try.
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Frequent travel made his leg swell up, and caused him a considerable amount of discomfort.
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Exactly half of his deliveries were on a good length, and while he banged 18 in short, another 11 were pitched well up in the blockhole.
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Gabrielle felt tears of pain well up in her eyes as her lip was busted open.
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There is that same absolutely beautiful girl sitting in a well upholstered chair next to a bassinet.
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As we see in Augustus Caesar (who was rather diverse from his uncle than inferior in virtue), how when he died he desired his friends about him to give him a plaudite, as if he were conscious to himself that he had played his part well upon the stage.
The Advancement of Learning
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What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection!
Vanity Fair
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Our eyes can also get red and puffy when we well up.
The Sun
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To one producer he wrote, "I want to highlight the creativity within the brain of a cripple, and while not attempting to hide the crippledom I want instead to filter all sob-storied sentiment from his portrait and dwell upon his life, his laughter, his vision, and his nervous normality.
Christopher nolan, under the eye of the clock
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If entrepreneurship and innovation do not well up in an organization, something must be stifling them.
THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
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Jupiter rises below Aries in the ENE some 30 minutes after our map times and outshines every star at mag -2.2 to -2.4 as it climbs to stand well up in the E to SE before dawn.
Starwatch: The July night sky
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To hear about lords and ladies, and their crimes and adventures, was lovely; but to dwell upon people of common birth, and in trade, was most unbeseeming.
Erema
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Gimmie some Dashboard Confessional and I well up and get all mushy.
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The cartilage in my nose would swell up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Moreover, foamy virus is just one of several that can make cultured cells swell up and agglomerate.
A Clue To Chronic Fatigue
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Yet the public sector gravy train looks like continuing its well upholstered journey for some time.
Times, Sunday Times
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But surprisingly to her, the painful ache in her heart did not come, nor did tears well up in her eyes.
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In my sub-arctic garden, though, the end of the tournament has always been the marker for my strawberry crop to swell up and need attention.
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In successful grafts, seedlings grew well up to 7 weeks after grafting.
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Many of the relays doing very well up against stiff opposition and bad weather.
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I forbear to dwell upon this exhibition of human weakness, for almost any one in Jason's shoes would have been equally regardless of the regulations, and in consequence proportionally unseamanlike.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
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What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection!
Vanity Fair
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Miss Saunders came in, and met Mama and Grandma; we were having the kitchen calcimined, the place was pretty well upset, I remember.
The Story of Julia Page
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If a blood vessel in your leg were to rupture, the leg would just swell up.
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I poked along well up to an hour, everything still as rock and sound asleep.
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I ought to be able to overcome these feelings but they still well up inside me.
The Sun
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Why don't you ask Roy? H e's well up in Chinese art.
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Mixed feelings swell up inside me when I consider the issue of postal ballots in the local elections this year.
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In the new century and new developing phase, let us seize opportunities and stick to our belief, go well up to bridle, and create bright future through cooperation with friends in various lines.
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The occipital protuberance occupies the extreme posterior end of the skull, when the glabello-occipital line is made horizontal, and so far from any part of the occipital region extending beyond it, this region of the skull slopes obliquely upward and forward, so that the lambdoidal suture is situated well upon the upper surface of the cranium.
Essays
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Why don't you ask Roy? H e's well up in Chinese art.
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Sure, he can put on an accent, look suitably crestfallen and let those tear ducts well up like a true champ, but is he really the third greatest actor in the history of film?
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When sitting for his portrait, Oliver Cromwell ordered his portraitist, who wanted to pretty Cromwell up, to paint him ‘warts and all.’
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He also levied a tax as well upon all cattle and provisions carried from the interior of the country into Djidda, as upon those carried into Mekka, Tayf, and Yembo, except what came with the two great hadj-caravans from the north, which passed every where duty-free.
Travels in Arabia
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The water was well up the cobbled lane that runs down the side of the park.
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When you develop a throat infection or catch a cold the glands in the neck swell up.
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Her arm was beginning to swell up where the bee had stung her.
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If a blood vessel in your leg were to rupture, the leg would just swell up.
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The soft Persian carpet, on which one's feet sank to the very ankles; the brightly polished dogs, upon which a blazing wood fire burned; the well upholstered fauteuils which seemed to invite sleep without the trouble of lying down for it; and last of all, the ample and luxurious bed, upon whose rich purple hangings the ruddy glare of the fire threw a most mellow light, was all a pleasing exchange for the "garniture" of the
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete
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A white rag, an old bone lying in the path, might be a _malefice_ which, if trodden upon, would cause his leg to blacken and swell up to the size of the limb of an elephant; -- an unopened bundle of plantain leaves or of bamboo strippings, dropped by the way-side, might contain the skin of a
Two Years in the French West Indies
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Accordingly, acting under his directions I placed myself within the bight, and tucking it well up under my arm-pits, slid the grummet up the trunk as high as it would go.
The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron
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Paul was taken aback by the fatherly protective instincts that seemed to well up from deep inside him.
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And poke out his eye, and swell up his tongue?
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The massive females drag themselves well up beyond the high-tide mark and excavate a hole with their rear flippers.
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Jews are forbidden to have any chametz, which is literally any kind of grain mixed with leaven and allowed to swell up.
Street Seders: Sacred Protest
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A gentle groundswell was building over the reef and washing well up the rock.
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I want to dwell upon the draft immigration rules because most hon. Members have mentioned them.
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We let them go, and bent over our friend, lying with a very gashly look by the body of the MacDonald, a man well up in years, now in the last throes, a bullet-wound in his neck and the blood frothing at his mouth.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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She felt tears well up in her eyes and when she blinked they finally escaped to roll down her pallid face.
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Having heard a few of their recorded songs, I thought they would be well up to the task, but in this performance they plodded messily through what could have been an interesting and lively set.
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From this point the President proceeded to speak of the increased toxical power of volatile compounds given off by neglected decomposed matter, and was thence led to dwell upon the dangers arising from decomposed substances in cesspools and in badly constructed drains.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882
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When you develop a throat infection or catch a cold the glands in the neck swell up.
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If it strikes you, you swell up and die of gross distention, for the swollen body putrefies immediately after...
Archive 2008-03-01
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I'm not all that well up in musical matters.
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Cork were well up in the first half and Kilkenny took off in the second half and routed them - there was a lot of Kilkenny fellas in the school at the time, so you can imagine the slagging.
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At mag 1.3 to 1.1 and moving from Cancer into Leo, it is well up in the ESE to SE before dawn, where it lies in front of the Praesepe star cluster on the 1st.
Starwatch: The October night sky
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Her arm was beginning to swell up where the bee had stung her.
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A handshake, with no thrill of love in it such as might have furnished her palm, at least, some memories to dwell upon; a few stilted words of leave-taking; a halting, meaningless sentence or two about his "botch" of life -- then he walked away from the Wentworth doorstep.
Homespun Tales
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Agre's decisive experiment showed that only those cells that contain aquaporin (to the right in the pictures) can absorb water and swell up.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
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Her arm was beginning to swell up where the bee had stung her.
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Our eyes can also get red and puffy when we well up.
The Sun
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As soon as a female begins to swell up and start coming into season she should be taken away from the males and kept separately.
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Set to guitar mode it gave the sound bags of depth while remaining well up front.
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Then, making up my bunt and putting into it the slack of the clews, the leech and footrope and the body of the sail, I hauled it well up on the yard, smoothed the skin, brought it down abaft, and made fast the bunt-gasket round the mast.
The Mutineers
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Silly cracker-barrel stuff, mostly, although he had a curious store of half-learned knowledge; Bunyan was a favourite, and he was well up on Napoleon and Caesar and assorted military history.
THE NUMBERS
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This style of fishing uses a waggler to present a bait well up in the water.
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Although the waters of the Baker River were well up on the Smith Bridge, the bridge stayed on its abutments.
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The decolorized zircon (jargoon) has a dispersion well up toward that of diamond and gives fairly vivid spectra on a card, but they are double, as zircon is doubly refracting.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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Your decision reflects well upon your judgment.
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With some allowance for their smaller muscle mass, the sheilas are well up to the blokes in the great outdoors.
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We will not dwell upon the rendering of _altezza_ by _summit_, although a little more care would have preserved the exact word of the original.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867
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Even to sit where a woman has sat, especially with divaricated thighs, as though to grant the last favours, most especially with previously well uplifted white sateen coatpans.
Ulysses
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He hacked a loose ball from virtually his own line well upfield and as Glasgow put on pressure, a penalty was awarded which Dan Parks slipped home.
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What a boy you are, Perce, to go on like that, why you must think I am well up in every kind of lubricity; it has never been my experience, much as I should like to see it.
Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master Percy's progress in and beyond the domestic circle
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To give an old woman only a chair and a bed, to leave her no cupboard in which her treasures may be stowed, not only that she may take them out when she desires occupation, but that their mind may dwell upon them in moments of revery, is to reduce living almost beyond the limit of human endurance.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
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the currents well up
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Her arm was beginning to swell up where the bee had stung her.
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Soon her pale blue eyes began to well up with tears as the memories flooded into her head.
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I ought to be able to overcome these feelings but they still well up inside me.
The Sun
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Our company have recognized clearly that "in the makeup industry, go well up to bridle, continue to innovate and progress, so can become truly the industry stronger.
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That these come unexpectedly in the midst of endless gross clatter is one of those mysteries of the creative process best not to dwell upon.
Make an Appointment
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In particular, the two concepts I dwell upon at length, the gedoog policy and the polder model, only exist as ideal types.
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The two horses were really well up to the race and the two lads gave them beautiful rides.
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Set to guitar mode it gave the sound bags of depth while remaining well up front.
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Mixed feelings swell up inside me when I consider the issue of postal ballots in the local elections this year.
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Footnote: There is a lot of anomalously cool subsurface water in the key tropical Atlantic region this year which may well upwell.
Bill Gray and the Atlantic Meridional Mode « Climate Audit
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In captivity these birds have been found to live well upon sweetened milk-sop, which is made by pouring boiling milk upon crumbled bread or biscuit.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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Jaguar's promotional video made it obvious that with the stability systems switched off the car is well up for some serious, tail-out, tyre-smoking power oversteer.
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The sandwich was well up to expectations and this was followed by a warm and very fresh fruit scone which crumbled as we spread it with strawberry jam and cream.
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Paul was taken aback by the fatherly protective instincts that seemed to well up from deep inside him.
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As the Birdwoman stood in front of the window admiring the dress, an urge started to well up inside her.
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She says she didn't notice at first but her arm began to swell up later.
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The trade, which had laid the Arangi well up under the lee of this outjutting point of Malaita, was now failing, so that she began to roll in the easy swells with crashings of sheets and tackles and thunderous flappings of her sails.
CHAPTER IV
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Jet streams tend to follow coastlines, along the same paths as the ocean currents which well up and curl around with the Coriolis effect and then encounter a coastline.
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Panic began to well up in me, and I spent vital seconds cursing myself for having thick burglar-proof bars fitted over the glass.
A CONVICTION OF GUILT
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poor little Miss Lawless" and had the tendency of their class to discuss and dwell upon symptoms with sympathetic harrowingness of detail.
Robin
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I'm sure a real DJ could whip up a better version of this abomination fairly easily, but I was just farting around in audio software and figured I might as well upload it.
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There are some glorious examples in the east of trendy, stylish, and well upholstered bars, cafes, shops selling pop cultural detritus and the like in old decaying buildings in the east.
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He pitched the ball well up, turned it a touch, and conceded only 44 runs in his ten overs.
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Despite my best efforts to control myself, I felt tears of guilt begin to well up in the corners of my eyes.
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I ought to be able to overcome these feelings but they still well up inside me.
The Sun
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When you develop a throat infection or catch a cold the glands in the neck swell up.
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We had a young team that did really well up front and I am really pleased at how they competed.
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Frequent travel made his leg swell up, and caused him a considerable amount of discomfort.
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What he loves most to dwell upon in his appreciations of other authors, and what readers love most to dwell with in his own writings, are those passages where the soul finds a repose in some kind of eternal present.
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I would imagine that it only works well uphill, since it cannot know the wind speed and the rider's aerodynamic drag.
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The moon was well up when the small boat in which our young detective was seated with Mr. Grey appeared in the bay approaching the so-called manufactory of Wellgood.
The Woman in the Alcove
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Where the 2001 movie caused tears to well up in my eyes, this movie left me cold and unmoved, even though its manipulation is relentless.
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Yet - for life is oversad to dwell upon rayless darkness even in books
Winding Paths
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Have more than 4 years related working experience, be well up in all the process of import affairs such as cargo import documentation preparation, customs declaration, customs locale Check, etc.
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Jame's heart can easily swell up enen by passing the examination.
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This also coincided with an eerily becalmed stage in my university career; after an exhausting period of immersive Keats and Shelley study, I was well up for test-driving the velveteen ache of beatific melancholia.
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There were too many eyes and ears about her ever open to discover and to retain the gossipry of the Court, and too many tongues ready to reveal all which might at the moment appear acceptable to her wounded feelings and insatiable desire to dwell upon the details of her unhappiness.
The Life of Marie de Medicis
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At the mention of his name, Ali felt all the emotion in her well up and burst out, and she collapsed onto the steering wheel once more, this time with tears running from her face.
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He was well up for it and when he is in that mood he's almost unplayable.
The Sun
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There is no separate union for white-collar and management staff, and both unions organize well up the employment hierarchy.
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Joan could feel tears well up in her eyes and she couldn't help but love her brother for who he was.
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But we have no time to dwell upon our personal fascinations, or to speculate upon the cause of their increase within the last half hour; no eyes have we save for that Lucullian _salmi_ steaming before us; and, like ourselves, all around us are absorbed in absorbing.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
