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Uptown   /ˈəptˈaʊn/   Listen
Uptown

adjective
1.
Of or located in the upper part of a town.






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"Uptown" Quotes from Famous Books



... the reading room, I'll send Yates to you when he comes. The boy will find him if he's in the house; but he may be uptown." ...
— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr

... dinner in a whirl of confused emotion and again found himself on Broadway walking at a furious pace uptown. He had no idea how furious the pace until he suddenly noticed that he was an object of mild curiosity. He slackened his speed, conscious at last that big forces were fighting within the first pitched battle for the mastery ...
— The Root of Evil • Thomas Dixon

... gone aboard the Harvest Moon and surprised the two soldiers, and dipped them in the water with their artillery, and sent them uptown with the wet warrant stuck in the muzzle of a gun. Then he paraded the Harvest Moon the length of Portate's water-front, tooting his steam whistle. Then the Jefe Municipal—that's the Mayor—fell into his warmest temper, and sent a company of pink soldiery ...
— The Belted Seas • Arthur Colton

... was an uptown swell in, and she bought one of them seventy-five-cent candlesticks for the ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various

... Sieppes took an uptown car that would bring them near Polk Street. The car was crowded; McTeague and Owgooste were obliged to stand. The little boy fretted to be taken in his mother's lap, but Mrs. Sieppe ...
— McTeague • Frank Norris

... my plans. I must keep near a library; but I shall hunt out a room uptown. There I can be near the Park, and I shall suffer a little less from these hideous noises. I shall go over there and spend every day—find out some place where there are not ...
— The Journal of Arthur Stirling - "The Valley of the Shadow" • Upton Sinclair

... this thing thoroughly." He shook Arkwright warmly by the hand and stooping stepped into the carriage. The young man who had stood at the door followed him and crowded back luxuriously against the cushions. The footman swung himself up beside the driver, and said "Uptown Delmonico's," as he wrapped the fur rug around his legs, and with a salute from the policemen and a scraping of hoofs on the slippery asphalt the ...
— The Lion and the Unicorn and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis

... said, "I want to talk to you awhile. Do you know, Aunt Rosa was here again to-day and she still tries to persuade us to sell the house and move uptown. It is so far for her to come from Seventieth Street, she says, but as for me I'd positively hate the change and Aunt Angela can't even stand the mention of it." She leaned forward and stroked his arm with one of her earnest gestures. "What would you do uptown, dear ...
— The Wheel of Life • Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

... herself from me, I was twelve months old and able to take care of myself, and, as after mother left me, the wharves were never the same, I moved uptown and met the Master. Before he came, lots of other men-folks had tried to make up to me, and to whistle me home. But they either tried patting me or coaxing me with a piece of meat; so I didn't take to 'em. But one day the Master pulled me out of a street-fight ...
— Ranson's Folly • Richard Harding Davis

... uptown and hire a taxi—they 've got big cars for mountain work and there are good roads all the way. It 'll cost fifteen or twenty ...
— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper

... And, on her six weeks' voyage to Liverpool, the Nigeria promised to spend as much time at anchor as at sea. On the Coast it is a more serious matter to reserve a cabin than in New York. You do not stop at an uptown office, and on a diagram of the ship's insides, as though you were playing roulette, point at a number. Instead, as you are to occupy your cabin, not for one, but for six, weeks, you search, as vigilantly as a navy officer looking for contraband, the ship ...
— The Congo and Coasts of Africa • Richard Harding Davis

... afternoon, urged more enthusiastically by him than she had ever been urged before, she accompanied him to a gymnasium far uptown. ...
— Winner Take All • Larry Evans



Words linked to "Uptown" :   residential district, residential area, city, community, downtown



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