Upwards
['ʌpwɚdz]
Definition
(adv.) In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward.
(adv.) In the upper parts; above.
(adv.) Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
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Examples
- Looking upwards, a furze-cutter would have been inclined to continue work; looking down, he would have decided to finish his faggot and go home. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Of this edition, up to the present period (1858), the astonishing number of TWELVE MILLIONS OF SHEETS have been issued, the weight of which amounts to upwards of 335 tons! Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- We were compelled to jump over upwards of eighteen hundred donkeys, and only one person in the party was unseated less than sixty times by the camels. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- On the top of the gallows is fixed the knife, blade upwards, with its point in the air. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially for so great a girl--she looked thirteen or upwards. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They were used upwards of two hundred years before locomotive engines were known, or before the steam engine itself was invented. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The small timber room glowed with the dawn, that came upwards from the low window. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The quantity of coals requisite for the production of the gas manufactured annually in London is upwards of 600,000 tons. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- No one can fail to see that the contemplation of the heavens draws the soul upwards. Plato. The Republic.
- It has 7,148 marble statues, and will have upwards of three thousand more when it is finished. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He probed the glowworms with a bit of stick, and rolled them over, till the bright side of their tails was upwards. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- They stayed there upwards of sixteen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And what training will draw the soul upwards? Plato. The Republic.
- The trading stock of the South Sea company at one time amounted to upwards of thirty-three millions eight hundred thousand pounds. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The simple kind of Centrifugal Pump applied in that chimerical scheme was known upwards of one hundred years ago. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- That at that rate they have conveyed upwards fourteen passengers. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I know nothing more of him than his name and race; but from a boy upwards I have always attached a personality to Saph. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A house with twenty windows and upwards to pay eight shillings. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is so arranged as to be always going, traveling upwards or downwards, and returning out of sight below. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- False and boastful conceits and phrases mount upwards and take their place. Plato. The Republic.
- Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He could make a boat out of anything, from a skewer upwards. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I remember, though, she told me once she had tutored her thoughts to tend upwards to heaven. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He did not turn me upside down this time to get at what I had, but left me right side upwards while I opened the bundle and emptied my pockets. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- This is the state of things, and the only state of things, she has seen from childhood upwards. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- For every one, as I think, must see that astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. Plato. The Republic.
- Because, in minds that have been practically formed by rule and line, from the cradle upwards, this is so curious, so incomprehensible. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- In the same islands, they knit worsted stockings to the value of a guinea a pair and upwards. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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