Uppers

Soles wear out in short order and the leather they are using for the uppers is cheap. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The upper peninsula residents are known as uppers (ph), and they eat something called pasties, which are a eat a meat based product that has a crust around it. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Contrasting, but also complementing the uppers is a gum sole, complete with tan stitching. adidas Originals Campus 80s "A. 039" Tan adidas Originals Campus 80s "A. 039" Tan adidas Originals Campus 80s "A. 039" Tan ❋ Alex Kroviak (2010)

For other nations it must be a downer, but being on our uppers is our favourite position. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many of these shoes have "leather-like" and "man-made" uppers - in other words, they're constructed out of pleather. ❋ Tracy Tjoeng (2009)

They had to be taking some kind of uppers to make it through each day, given how little sleep they were getting. ❋ Rhonda Stapleton (2009)

It is quite true that the 'uppers' are getting more 'upper'.... and therefore more detached from daily reality. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The neat bottines, _à la_ Diane Chasseresse, took a charming touch of lightness from the aluminium nails which decorated the "uppers" with a quaint and original Dravidian cornice. ❋ T. R. Swinburne (N/A)

There were going to be very few football matches; but "uppers" were played with the old keenness, and there was fierce competition for the last places in the scrum. ❋ Alec Waugh (1939)

As soon as the first keenness wore off he found the interminable "uppers," totally unrelieved by the excitement of matches, amazingly dull. ❋ Alec Waugh (1939)

Regretfully admitting the superiority of Venus's "uppers" she takes heart of grace, knowing from history how important in princely eyes is her own particular endowment. ❋ Various (1898)

Felt, or buckskin, or heavy cloth makes very good "uppers" for children's shoes; but only leather makes good soles. ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)

The upper parts of a shoe, the "uppers," as they are called, are the vamp or front of the shoe, the top, the tip, and (in a laced shoe) the tongue. ❋ Eva March Tappan (1892)

John Adams 'father was a shoemaker; and, trying to teach his son the art, gave him some "uppers" to cut out by a pattern which had a three-cornered hole in it to hang it up by. ❋ Orison Swett Marden (1887)

Maisie also for a minute looked at his shoes, though they were not the pair she most admired, the laced yellow "uppers" and patent-leather complement. ❋ Henry James (1879)

He wore one boot and one shoe, which he had probably taken from the common sewer of Richmond, or some other southern city; they were ripped to such an extent that the "uppers" went flipperty-flap as he walked, and had the general appearance of the open mouth of the mythic dragon, with five bare toes in each to represent teeth. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

"Come round to my office and let me see them," said I. "I am going to take these shoes to the binder's," -- he had a package of "uppers" in his hand -- "and must be back in twenty minutes, or Mr. Maxwell says he will give me the strap." ❋ Unknown (1847)

Andy G must really be on his 'uppers' to take that gig. posted on 08/20/2010 6: 05: 52 PM PDT ❋ Unknown (2010)

Stimulants, ( "uppers" such as Dexedrine, Adderall, Ritalin and Concerta). ❋ Admin (2010)