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Draw up

verb

Form or arrange in order or formation, as of a body of soldiers.

Straighten oneself. Synonyms: pull up, straighten up.

Cause (a vehicle) to stop. Synonym: pull up.

Make up plans or basic details for. Synonyms: compose, frame.

Come to a halt after driving somewhere. Synonyms: haul up, pull up. "The chauffeur hauled up in front of us"

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... solitaire after supper; one of the simpler forms of the game. It seemed to help her to think out the day's problems, and to soothe her at the same time. She would turn down the front of the writing desk, and draw up the piano stool. ...

— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber

... must;" and Mrs. Wynter began, rather reluctantly, to put aside her embroidery, and draw up her lace ...

— A Canadian Heroine - A Novel, Volume 3 (of 3) • Mrs. Harry Coghill

... tails, they tore onwards, jostling each other in their course, their sharp horns lowered for the charge, the approaching herd appeared like some vast army of savage monsters, rushing on to meet their foes in battle. To draw up out of their way was impossible, and the travellers soon found themselves surrounded by the herd; the creatures, however, turned their horns aside, while the shape of their own heads and the width of their backs prevented them from running them into their ...

— The Gilpins and their Fortunes - A Story of Early Days in Australia • William H. G. Kingston

... VII. put into his hands the direction of the mint at Paris, and began to take his advice as to the administration of the crown's finances. In 1440 he was appointed moneyman to the king, ennobled together with his wife and children, commissioned soon afterwards to draw up new regulations for the manufacture of cloth at Bourges, and invested on his own private account with numerous commercial privileges. He had already at this period, it was said, three hundred manufacturing hands in his employment, and he was working at the same time ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume III. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... request, the articles of the Recess were given to him, so that he might draw up a vindication. This vindication, which was also laid before the Great Council at Zurich, shows the undaunted courage of the man, as well as his assurance of being in the ...

— The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli • Johann Hottinger

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