lead up

• “Darian had known all along that every lesson would lead up to a Mastery Trial, but he'd assumed he would have time to prepare for it, and undergo days of special readiness rituals.”

  Fictionaut: Elephant in the City

• “Mr. Emilius had found the necessity of coming to the point by some direct road, as the lady had refused to allow him to lead up to it in the manner he had proposed to himself.”

  The Eustace Diamonds

• “He had cunningly tried to lead up to the subject, but Robert Lefroy had been on his guard as soon as he had perceived the Doctor's object, and had drawn back, denying the truth of the word he had before spoken.”

  Dr. Wortle's School

• “We my however, again observe that, his aim being chiefly apologetic, Matthew selected and presented the events of Christ's life and also these discourses in a way that would lead up to the conclusive proof which he wished to give of the Messiahship of Jesus.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

• “But the best sport of all was when some of Mr. Avery's preaching tours would lead up the course of a fine mountain trout-brook in the vicinity.”

  Oldtown Folks

• “I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary Sutherland.”

  A Case of Identity

• “So between Cairns Group, G33 and the very strong commitment we had in the lead up to the G20 meeting with”

  Joint doorstop interview with Minister for Trade Simon Crean - APEC Ministerial Meeting - Transcript - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs

• “The bibliographical history of these books, the intimacy and dependence of the several persons engaged; and the geographical development of Florida-Virginia are all so intertwined and blended, that the whole seems to lead up to Thomas Hariot, the clearing up of whose biography thus becomes an appropriate labor of the Hercules Club.”

  Thomas Hariot

• “He saw himself walk all the way around Eight-Face Mound, until he found a place where a path seemed to lead up the steep hill.”

  Fictionaut: He Don't Know Him

• “They must ride in the broad old family carriage, for the little ones cannot walk so far; but, when they reach the river, they will take a boat with white sails, and go down to where the steep steps and path lead up on the other side, up the sunny green bank to the vineyard, where already the peasant-girls have been at work ever since sunrise.”

  The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air

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