"Rise up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... looming before him was an old monarch of the forest that somehow had escaped when the slide had scarred the mountain-side. Its gnarled branches, standing out vaguely in the half-light of the moon and stars like the arms of an octopus, seemed to Teeny-bits to rise up and seize him. He had the feeling that something was lifting him into the air, that he was going up and up into the silver face of the moon. It seemed also that at the same time there was a flash of light followed ...
— The Mark of the Knife • Clayton H. Ernst
... at him with a look like that which Runnion had seen in his face on that first day at the trading-post. The thought of these five men banded together to rob this little maid had caused a giddiness to rise up in him, and his passions were beginning ...
— The Barrier • Rex Beach
... Steady!' As the coming wave slipping under the ship began to rise up her side, the officer freed the falls and the boat sank ...
— The Man • Bram Stoker
... are we to believe about the punishment of our sins? I look back upon my own life, and I see numberless occasions—they rise up before me, a long perspective of failures—when I have acted cruelly, selfishly, self-indulgently, basely, knowing perfectly well that I was so behaving. What was wrong with me? Why did I so behave? ...
— Where No Fear Was - A Book About Fear • Arthur Christopher Benson
... slowly disengaging himself from one of his enormous gloves, "when we waltzed down into the brush up there I saw a man, ez plain ez I see you, rise up from it. I thought our time had come and the band was goin' to play, when he sorter drew back, made a sign, and we ...
— A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories • Bret Harte
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