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Draw up

verb

Form or arrange in order or formation, as of a body of soldiers.

Straighten oneself. Synonyms: pull up, straighten up.

Cause (a vehicle) to stop. Synonym: pull up.

Make up plans or basic details for. Synonyms: compose, frame.

Come to a halt after driving somewhere. Synonyms: haul up, pull up. "The chauffeur hauled up in front of us"

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"Draw up" Quotes from Famous Books

... to draw up a description of the mine country and its various mineral resources. Having finished my expedition to the south, I felt a strong desire to extend my observations up the Mississippi to St. Anthony's Falls, and into the copper-bearing regions of that latitude. Immediately I wrote ...

— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

... into her corner again, while the captain said, "I will draw up some sea water, with which you must bathe her head. Smart's wound will fester I doubt; we have nothing here to ease that, I ...

— Yr Ynys Unyg - The Lonely Island • Julia de Winton

... o'clock that afternoon, the little sad-eyed woman who fills the position of concierge at the Hotel du Senat held up her hands in amazement to see a wagon-load of flower-bearing shrubs draw up before the doorway. She called Joseph, the intemperate garcon, who, while calculating the value of the flowers in petits verres, gloomily disclaimed any knowledge ...

— The King In Yellow • Robert W. Chambers

... a shout of joy as we caught the glint of it; a shout that might well have been a warning to any lurking trout. Angel and I scarcely waited for the pony to draw up beneath the trees before we tumbled out of the trap; and the Bishop, grasping the eager Seraph by the wrist, swung him to ...

— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche

... the lady from Philadelphia was very ill that day, and was in her bed. But when she was told what the trouble was, she very kindly said they might draw up the curtain from the window at the foot of the bed, and open the blinds, and she would see. Then she asked for her opera-glass, and looked through it, across the way, up the street, to Mrs. ...

— The Peterkin Papers • Lucretia P Hale

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