He wuz a mighty high-up man in dem days, Brer Wolf wuz, en.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference

He was a high-up in Worldgov, third in line for Man Prime.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2007 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

Who's to say the advisor WASN'T Grunwald or some such high-up?.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times: Hillary Speech Partly Driven By Ambition] Reference

It was rumoured he had high-up friends; in the Met and in the GPS.    From Wordnik.com.  [faceless]

That you have brought someone high-up here, to assassinate Darling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose]

There are many of them, some in high-up places, some in lowly ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Strange Bundle]

But when you've got a high-up on your case, that's a different story.    From Wordnik.com.  [elfpvke Diary Entry] Reference

How could anyone not know and be that high-up should be the question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colin Powell Endorses Obama] Reference

She was very fond of the -high-up policeman-, as she used to call him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Strange Bundle]

If you get in front of him, obviously you want to cut high-up around the thighs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redskins find a place for cut block, a Shanahan staple] Reference

They could all have become high-up people in the world if they had not become jesuits.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference

"I'll make a high-up shelf, like those in the hardware store down town," went on Bunny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store] Reference

It really doesn't surprise me in the least to see Sienna Miller so high-up on such a list.    From Wordnik.com.  [MySpace.co.uk Tweens Idolise Sienna Miller] Reference

However, the CIA and others high-up in Government, disavow any knowledge of the atrocities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rendition…Americans don’t torture people! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture] Reference

Is it possible the people high-up in the medical profession don't want to know of any cure?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference

Yes they were high-up and there was no roof here but they were not in any danger of falling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Body Ricardo] Reference

Here there was a little more light, for the high-up aperture over the door opened to the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lair of the White Worm] Reference

My cousin was a lifetime high-up foreign service official married to a lifetime CIA employee.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain: CIA secrecy story just beginning] Reference

This one came from a pretty high-up source of ours, and it turns out to be pretty interesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apple iPhone display hitting your local AT&T stores soon! « Boy Genius Report] Reference

I actually think it very possible that The Times was obeying orders from somewhere very high-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Were You When You Heard About NightJack? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

I find so far, without exception, that the high-up aristocracy are simple and cordial and agreeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference

"Well-couldn't we do it again, if those men take us off to the high-up cave another time?" asked Tom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventurous Four Again]

But when she said, 'No Neal,' I snuck out and hid under de high-up carrigge seat and went along jus 'de same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference

Minutes after meeting a friend, a former high-up official in Israel's Foreign Ministry, he ran back to see me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alon Ben-Meir: 'Arab and Peace' Is Not an Oxymoron] Reference

India also figures high-up on the list of high-burden multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) countries in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [National partnership for TB care and control is shaping up in India] Reference

So some high-up people call earlier in the week - not the high-up people who extend my contract, the other ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [elfpvke Diary Entry] Reference

A series of violent concussions and the faint high-up throb of aero engines were the only indications of his gambols.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference

I have some names - very high-up people - who have some fisticuffs with their domestics and we have enforced the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

A couple of well-dressed, good-looking people who were so high-up they could entertain the world's number one celebrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Space Merchants]

Marigold used my telephone to get through to an influential high-up whom she galvanised into visiting Logan Glass at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shattered]

Us slept on high-up old timey beds what had big posties and instead of springs, dey had stout cords wove 'cross to hold de mattress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1] Reference

So he returned to The Wort, found our high-up boss amongst the folks who were still reveling, and reported his truck had been stolen.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

But before I said yes, I asked the men doing the hiring -- two high-up officers of the foundation -- what exactly the foundation did.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Oppenheimer: Prop 8, Templeton Foundation, "Homophobia" -- An Insider's View] Reference

It was imperative, he said, that since that high-up box was no more, the Stewards should have an unimpeded all-round view of every race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Decider]