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Etymologies
- From Middle English upstanden, equivalent to up- + stand. Cognate with Dutch opstaan ("to rise, stand up"), German aufstehen ("to arise, get up, stand up"), Swedish uppstå ("to arise, emerge, come up"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The wiselaw blooger was there, very upstand crowd of the crumb-dala-crumb”
“I think he needs to jump in and work really, really, really hard just to show that he's -- to upstand all the lazy rumors and to show that he's really serious about this, because people are wondering.”
“I think he needs to jump in and work really, really hard just to show that he's -- to upstand (ph) all the lazy rumors and to show that he's really serious about this, because people are wondering.”
“Ideally, a circular or rectangular surface should be bounded by a 300 mm high upstand.”
“Ayana could trace the likenesses, perhaps most in the heads with the stiffly whiskered faces, in the upstand - ing, pointed ears, and in the tails.”
“Miss Keggs had been known to knock over the inkpot on her desk and sit and watch the ink dripping in a pool on to the floor without making the least attempt even to upstand the vessel.”
“I scarce to have gone a great mile more, but there came two vague things out of a dark place, where certain rocks did upstand; and I smote them with the Diskos, and went onward; but what they did be, I never to know.”
“Oh mein Gott, upstand and jump up your horse; she will surely be here directly!”
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
“Then in the grave-mound's darkness did Sigmund the king upstand;”
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
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