"Upright" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Sweeping the heaths with our skirts, greying the dew-bloom, Until we feel a pool on the wide dew stretches Stilled by the moon or ruffling like breast-feathers, And, with grey sleeves cheating the sleepy herons, Squat among them, pillow us there and sleep. But in the harder wastes we stand upright, Like splintered rain-worn boulders set to the wind In old confederacy, and rest ...
— The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays • Various
... difficult virtue in the presence of what seem pressing dangers. Their policy was wrong, stupid, unjust, pernicious. It was a deplorable mistake, and all will wish now that the discredit of it did not rest on the history of Oxford. And yet it was the mistake of upright and conscientious men. ...
— The Oxford Movement - Twelve Years, 1833-1845 • R.W. Church
... we found an honourable tomb within a house like a chapel, in which hung a silk flag or standard, with many arrows or darts round the grave, and the walls were hung round with many bulls[328]. On an upright slab or table at the head of the grave there was a long inscription or epitaph, and about the house there were many sweet-scented waters and other perfumes. From the Moors and Arabs I was informed that an Arabian of high rank of the lineage of Mahomet was here buried; ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI - Early English Voyages Of Discovery To America • Robert Kerr
... houses carne en salmuera, pickled beef comarca, region conceder, to grant, to allow cosecha, crop, harvest cueros, hides exiguo, small, insignificant, slender incluir, to include, to enclose incluso, included incluyendo, including integro, upright, integer, whole interino, interim juicioso, sensible linones, olanes, lawns manteca de puerco, lardo, lard pieles, skins productos accesorios, by-products sebo, tallow tarjeta, card tasajo, jerked beef tierno, tender ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... a mind which is free, upright, undaunted, and stedfast beyond the influence of fear or desire, which thinks nothing good except honor, and nothing bad except shame, and regards everything else as a mass of mean details which can ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome • Various
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