"Well up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... comfortably installed in a third-floor flat in commanding premises, within a stone's throw of the Stock Exchange, I flatter myself that, at least in all the surroundings of my position, I am, acting under your instructions, well up to the mark. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890. • Various
... The sun was well up to its meridian before they came through a thick clump of quaking aspens to the mouth of a gulch opening from the end of a little mountain park. On one of the slopes of the gulch a cabin squatted, half hidden by the great boulders and the matting of pine boughs in front. Here Brad swung stiffly ...
— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine
... taken his place in it when the sleep began to well up over his brain—waves of shadows running out of corners of his mind. And then suddenly he ...
— Black Jack • Max Brand
... and Pete left the settlement and headed up river. They started early and travelled hard. They were well aware that a storm was not far off, so Dane wished to be well up the Washademoak before the tempest burst. He knew of the band of Indians far inland, and there he hoped to find Jean. It was the most likely place where she would be taken, so he reasoned. But if he could not find her there, he would no doubt ...
— The King's Arrow - A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists • H. A. Cody
... visitors from the hotels, and other well-informed people, saw the joke and humored it. Others, prepared for almost any item of startling news, and not too well up in national affairs, took it all for sober earnest. ...
— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford
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