Stood with arms upraised. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Eyes closed, sword upraised, he engaged his mastery and summoned. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
He rushed straight for Eldran's wife and daughter, sword upraised!. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Hunter]
Then, with sword upraised, he advanced cautiously toward the sleeping snake. From Wordnik.com. [Hunters Out of Space] Reference
He looked up and saw an elven warrior, sword upraised, standing several feet away from him. From Wordnik.com. [Riverwind the Plainsman]
" Sword upraised, a horrified Simna rushed forward-only to fall hard as something tripped him. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
The upraised swords, and strew the ground with dead. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
With hands upraised she advanced to the porch steps. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
"Oh, Lord!" ejaculated Croyden, with upraised hands. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
Are wildly upraised in the Fling or the Sword-dance. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic] Reference
"I wonder what's up now?" asked Tom, pausing with upraised fork. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship] Reference
At first his wife tries to soften his upraised hand by shaking it. From Wordnik.com. [The Oscars] Reference
Cautiously they advanced towards each other, with knives upraised. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
"With hand upraised in supplication, yielded to the impulse to flee" 67. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
Farquharson patted the pretty upraised hands, glittering with diamonds. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
Marjorie smiled down into the earnest, upraised face of the little boy. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
And before the light in her upraised eyes Lans Treadwell did not flinch. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
Fans shout and sway their upraised arms like a squad of football referees. From Wordnik.com. [Original Hits! Original Stars!] Reference
Just as the soul took its flight, he upraised both hands, with a smile, and said. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
"Peace be to this house and to thy hearts, my daughters," she said with upraised hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
Jim's renewed effort of "I say, Alf!" was quenched by the upraised hands of both engineers. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
It chanced that I was directly in his path, and he was rushing upon me with upraised knife. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
"Caterina Regina!" they cried in concert, with every man's right hand upraised, calling Heaven to witness. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
Other times, I'd pass her upraised hand for a second or third time, hoping for anyone else with an answer. From Wordnik.com. [I Can't Answer] Reference
Drivers were leaving their autos, and hands were being upraised towards the gargantuan face on the clouds above. From Wordnik.com. [Get Out of Our Skies!] Reference
Three times before recess did he, boldly ignoring the preface of upraised hand, swagger up to Miss Clara's desk. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
They are in attitudes of fury, with fists upraised as if to strike, and features atrociously fierce and distorted. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In the dark eyes upraised to him there swam a mist of tears and the heart of the little maid tore at her breast in anguish. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
The lad, backing away from under Lindley's upraised arm, still murmured, echoing Lindley's words: "Sacred things!" and added. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
His presence on the forward fringe of the crowd seemed to many as an upraised hand to strike the waiting horseman in the back. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
'Money!' answered the other, in a hollow tone, with the stone still upraised, while his eyes glowed savagely upon the young man. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
His face was white, his pulse was galloping like mad, and yet he managed a rather ghastly smile into her face, upraised and pleading. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Her watchful eyes have fastened upon every weakness in her foe: her ready hand has been upraised wherever there was a chance to strike. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Capitoline Hill upraised its historic summit, crowned with a cluster of stately temples that stood out in sharp relief against the sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
As he approached, the clatter of both tongues and stones ceased, and hundreds of eyes would be upraised to scan his towering proportions. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
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