send up

• “The roots send up a multitude of offshoots, resembling woodeny radishes, some being forked, growing wrong end up.”

  The Confessions of a Beachcomber

• “Fellow NASA test pilot Bruce Peterson was situated on the north lake bed waiting to send up locator flares.”

  Simon & Schuster: First Man

• “They can send up new coppice shoots, as mallee does in the Whipstick, from underground lignotubers, and their roots plunge far too deep to be burnt.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• “It was traditional for the CAPCOM to provide music for MCC to send up as a wake-up call.”

  Simon & Schuster: Riding Rockets

• “  If they need us to engage the Imperials, send up three red rockets.”

  Lord Conrads Crusade

• “On the 31st of July Sir George Trenchard and Sir Ralph Horsey wrote to Cecil from Dorchester in reply to his instructions, that they had seized the charts and books of the 'India Voyage' [to Guiana] from one Samuel Mace and William Downe, which they would send up to the Secretary if desired.”

  Thomas Hariot

• “It is now proper, I think, quoth Dr. Slop, (clearing up his looks) as we are in a condition to be of some service to Mrs. Shandy, to send up stairs to know how she goes on.”

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

• “It was worth trying, anyway; the worst that could happen would be that she would get it stuck and have to send Bourneville back to Willstown with a note for them to send up somebody more competent.”

  A Town Like Alice

• “Martha had even been thoughtful enough to send up a generous portion of shredded kippers and chicken for the cats.”

  One Night Of Scandal

• “It is true there are some large populous towns that do not choose, but then there are so many that do, that the county seems to have no injustice, for they send up six-and-twenty members.”

  From London to Land's End

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