Read full poem →In youth’s fine linen and fair broidery,
To run up hill and meet the rising sun,
We are apt to sit tired, patient as a fool,
Dictionary Entry
The action of running up; the area of the pitch used by the bowler to run up, the start of which he marks with a small marker
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Poetry examples for “run up”
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Read full poem →(The rest had run up the Bay) —
There he was, belching flame from his bow,
Read full poem →disposed in layers, and interstratified with the shales of the coal-
measures. These balls, or concretions, run up in size from small
pebbles to masses weighing a ton or more.