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Well up   /wɛl əp/   Listen
Well up

verb
1.
Come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things).  Synonym: swell.  "Smoke swelled from it"






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"Well up" Quotes from Famous Books



... risen, and was now well up in the eastern sky, so that the bridge was brightly illumined by it, Rene crossed unnoticed. As the gate was still firmly fastened when he returned, Simon failed to detect that it had been opened, but the old man spent some minutes looking for the ...
— The Flamingo Feather • Kirk Munroe

... is, doubtless, keeping well up to Brest, though, for my own part, I had rather tempt them out into the ...
— Rodney Stone • Arthur Conan Doyle

... be formed any time of the year, but the usual custom is to prepare it so as to be ready to cut, say, in the fall, for the first time. Take a pan or shallow box and sow the seed any time during the winter before March. When well up, so they can be handled, transplant into small pots, and from these shift into larger, say to three or four inch pots. Keep the shoots pinched back so as to form a stout, bushy plant. During winter they will require an artificial temperature of not less than 50 degrees. When summer ...
— Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. - A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside • Various

... the second boot, and sat holding his blue yarn stocking-feet well up from the wet floor. "There ain't no need of havin' the rheumatiz, accordin' to my way ...
— Pembroke - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... His children. The preacher's voice was pleasant, the ministerial tone not being so pronounced as to make his speech unnatural. Chester listened attentively, as also did Lucy who, Chester observed, was sitting well up towards the front. ...
— Story of Chester Lawrence • Nephi Anderson


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