Read full poem →And, breathing hope into the sick man’s face,
Bade him take up his bed, and rise and go,
What the end were, and whether it were so,
Dictionary Entry
To pick up.
In a Sentence
“The reel automatically took up the slack.”
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Poetry examples for “take up”
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Read full poem →At last, dearest Louisa, I take up my pen to address you.
Here we are, you see, with the seven-and-seventy boxes,
Read full poem →Our authors, 'tis true, take up articles' in two dictionaries, but these contain little more
thap remarks on their dramatic performances. Believing therefore tliat the no account, of the
Read full poem →The Trust they stood twice pledged to keep from wrong,
One said, Take up thy Song,
That breathes the mild and almost mythic time
Read full poem →widespread propaganda of opposition, making it
imperative that he take up in his own country,
a struggle for the preservation of that which had
Read full poem →ners. We shall release again the checked forces
of civilization and America shall take up once
more the leadership of the world. (Prolonged
Read full poem →We touch upon the Domesday book of old,
We take up Elenor Murray, show her birth;
Then skip all time between and show her death;
Read full poem →Unite, achieve their destiny, find the cradle
Of sleep and growth, take up the cryptic task
Of maturation and of fashioning;
Read full poem →By a certain line obscure to us.
And then he'll take up Horace's odes
Or the Roman civilization;
Read full poem →Is wisely to advise: now day is spent;
Therefore with me ye may take up your In[*] 295
For this same night. The knight was well content: