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rise up

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rise up 
1. to come up; to ascend. The water is rising up fast. You had better get to higher ground. As the water rose up, it covered the fields and streets.
2. to get up from lying down. The deer rose up and darted off into the woods. I rose up and brushed my clothing.
See also: rise, up
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--and you rise up from table virtually governor of the glorious old State
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
But, suppose we should rise up tomorrow and emancipate, who would educate these millions, and teach them how to use their freedom?
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
And he is upon the whole of a fixed opinion that to give the sanction of his countenance to any complaints respecting it would be to encourage some person in the lower classes to rise up somewhere--like Wat Tyler.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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