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It came upon me very suddenly and soared upward and was about the size of a baby carriage.
The ground angled suddenly upward, and he staggered as the abrupt slope surprised him.
The heat peaks caused by the upward and downward pressure jumps differ in sign but should agree in absolute values.
The magnet was then slowly but steadily trained upward in field strength until, after 13 quenches, it reached 11.14 Tesla.
However, those who took advantage of the fixed-rate deals on offer before the upward movement are quids in.
The upward tendency in arms exports has generated a new wave of company mergers, especially in the aerospace industry.
Andy called out, jerking his chin upward in the direction of the tall, slender, much sought-after brunette.
I always liked chimney climbing, wedging my body, arms and legs inside narrow walls and inching upward.
After sunset, the heat radiates upward, lowering temperatures near the ground.
A warm hand lifted her chin upward as he leaned towards her and stared into her brown copper eyes.
Tristyn screamed and jolted upward and moved her legs in a quick manner in an attempt to escape as quickly as possible.
After a sharp jump upward in April 2003, the index stabilized and then strengthened further toward the end of the year.
Jim opted for a vertical format with the ads soaring upward on the page whenever feasible.
His hair was raven black, and swayed lightly in the wind, reaching his shoulders and cut in a slight upward curve.
A light ray grazing the surface under those circumstances is bent, or refracted, upward.
Shogun Lodge, his sword in one hand, countered the stroke of the heavy iron sword with an upward movement.
Alternatively, apply the toner to the face and neck with a ball of cotton, using smooth, gentle upward strokes.
Run the razor under the shower and then begin with some slow, gentle strokes in an upward motion.
These children stare wildly, their oversized eyes gazing upward, eternally unblinking in an attitude that recalls contemporary Symbolism.
Each downstroke of the wing of birds produces a small upward acceleration of the body to support the weight of the body and overcome drag.
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The tendency of the coronal region is upward, that of the basilar downward.
The coronoid process in Thrinaxodon sweeps upward posterodorsally at an angle oblique to the long axis of the ramus.
The ailanthus trees were bare at that time, throwing gaunt arms upward to the November sky.
He paid very close attention to it as he was carried slowly and creakily upward.
The cremaster, which is short, is bent upward at an oblique angle with the line of the ventral surface.
It lay upon its back, staring upward with lacerated eyeless sockets, their contents torn out by the black vulture.
Leaving the warm glow of his camp-fire, he soared upward into the violet night.
The blimp pitched steeply upward to a standstill, barely moving toward the parachute.
They sailed upward for hundreds of feet, then curved and fell like skyrockets.
When the jaw was adducted, the coronoid process moved upward and inside the cheek.
He reached a hand toward the cutout, the torso of which still bulged upward from the desk.
The gurglet and mantle were passed to him, and soon he and his follower were feeling their way upward.
She accented papa and mamma on the last syllable and leaned forward and looked upward like a shirtwaist Madonna.
The change is often made, not because the changer has gone upward, but because he has gone downward, has deteriorated.
The last and most important line that led upward from the chaos of Archaean worms is that of the Arthropods.
This causes an 'area of discontinuity of flow', or eddy, which results in 'negative pressure', causing an upward suction.
Lying on his back and looking upward into the green roof, Henry listened to the forest concert.
But after a while they noticed that the grade was upward and the going easier.
The upward prominence of a toe in a rigid position, is known as hallux flexus or hammertoe.
The ascending colon passes upward from the right haunch-bone to the under surface of the liver.
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