"Straighten up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you—you're the sensible one. If I can't straighten up on my own account and on yours, surely I can ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... you much there. I got the impression that he wore a mask—as Miss Copley did when she saw him on the trail. He was dressed from head to foot in black. He even wore black gloves; it was an odd thing that made me notice that. Have you ever seen a man straighten up from some completed task and stand looking down at it, nodding his head and rubbing his hands together as if to say, 'Well, there's a good job over and done with'? That's what this fellow did ...
— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston
... "Straighten up, Doctor," said McCrae, giving him a good poke in the ribs. "This is Mr. Harris, who you will travel with—Jack Harris. An' ...
— The Homesteaders - A Novel of the Canadian West • Robert J. C. Stead
... took him into the mouth of a little gorge, and, as he bent down to seize the end of a big stick, he heard just ahead a rustling that caused him with instinctive caution to straighten up and spring back, his hand, at the same time, flying to the butt of the pistol in his belt. A figure, tall and menacing, emerged from the darkness, and he retreated two or ...
— The Masters of the Peaks - A Story of the Great North Woods • Joseph A. Altsheler
... went much stooped, because it pained me to straighten up; but from the time I laid my cane aside I straightened up, free from pain. Occasionally I have a slight pain in my back, but it is nothing to compare with what it ...
— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy
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