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Sit up

verb

Not go to bed. Synonym: stay up. "We sat up all night to watch the election"

Change to an upright sitting position.

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"Sit up" Quotes from Famous Books

... now she's worrying for fear the money won't come and justify her extravagance. Mellicent, with implicit faith that the hundred thousand is coming wants to wear her best frocks every day. And, as if she were not already quite excited enough, young Pennock has very obviously begun to sit up and ...

— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter

... his breath, and was able to sit up and give attention to what passed betwixt Dunois and Crawford, while the former pleaded eagerly that there was no occasion to mention in the matter the name of the most noble Orleans, while he was ready to take the whole blame on his own shoulders, and to avouch that ...

— Quentin Durward • Sir Walter Scott

... "Don't sit up and worry, old man," he said. "Go to bed, anyhow. The doctor and your womenfolk will do all that can be done. Your duties commence to-morrow. Keep your tail up, and face it out. Noblesse oblige, ...

— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay

... better now. She could sit up, and, as the river water was not salty, as is the water of the ocean, what she had swallowed of it ...

— Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue • Laura Lee Hope

... time I was so reconciled to my seat, and become such an expert rider, that I could sit up and look around me; but in general I lay along the eagle's neck, grasping it in my arms, with my hands immersed in its feathers, in order to ...

— The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen • Rudolph Erich Raspe

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