Upstarting

A people incomplete, and at the mercy of old, upstarting lusts. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A short time after, a party of sailors from the Union fleet essayed to capture it by night, but its garrison, upstarting from the ruins, drove them back with great loss. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

But John Alden upstarting, as if the barb of the arrow 910 ❋ O. J. Stevenson (N/A)

It describes a sudden call, and an eager upstarting, and ❋ William Arnot (N/A)

But his desire to relieve Janet was suddenly lost in an upstarting brood of impulses that took him to the railway station with the smile still upon his lips. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

With the huddled flocks upstarting, wondering if they hear aright, ❋ Robert Haven Schauffler (1921)

It was the signal for a general upstarting from the table, a pushing back of chairs, a gathering around Elizabeth Cornish. ❋ Max Brand (1918)

"Yet do I seek vengeance!" cried I, upstarting to my feet. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

Mrs. Heth, curiously, had been brought down in full flight: perhaps by the force of that wild upstarting, perhaps by the grisly threat about the Cooneys. ❋ Henry Sydnor Harrison (1905)

Her wits were like a flock of birds loosed from the cage of her will, alighting here, upstarting there, without let or hindrance. ❋ Unknown (1893)

It was as if you saw a flame upstarting before you, waving tremulously here and there, but burning and resistless in its white heat. ❋ Anna Katharine Green (1890)

The contrast between the languid dreaming and the fiery upstarting is striking and effective, and the practical musician, as well as the student of aesthetics, will do well to examine by what means these various effects are produced. ❋ Niecks, Frederick (1888)

She followed the direction of my eye, stroked down an upstarting frill, and coloured furiously. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)

"Be that our sign of parting, bird or fiend," I shrieked, upstarting -- ❋ Unknown (1884)

After all the wildness of the disturbance was over Sir Rupert had insisted on her going to bed and not getting up until luncheon-time, and she had quietly submitted, and had been undressed, and had slept a little in a fitful, upstarting sort of way; and at last noon came, and she soon got up again, and bathed, and prepared to be very heroic and enduring and self-composed. ❋ Justin McCarthy (1871)

He seeks each of us by the inner voices and emotions in our hearts and minds, by those strange whisperings which sometimes we hear, by the suddenly upstarting convictions of duty and truth which sometimes, without manifest occasion, flash across our hearts. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

No; one of the firemen remained to watch over it, and guard against the upstarting of any sneaking spark that might have managed to conceal itself. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Pale-sheeted ghosts, with gory locks, upstarting from their tombs - ❋ Henry Morley (1858)

Our General on his charger floundered on before us over channels that the storms had made, and the upstarting fragments of rocks that seemed confederated to present an insurmountable barrier to every rash and roving wight. ❋ Cottle, Joseph (1847)

But John Alden, upstarting, as if the barb of the arrow ❋ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1844)

Our relationship was an upstart, she seemed really great at the [beginning] but it [turned out] she was boring and [lame]. ❋ Finnegan (2005)

“UpStarts” are companies that are shaking up [the market], [breaking down] barriers and helping change [the economy]. ❋ UpStarter (2011)

[John] was such an upstart at the [protest]. ❋ Caitlin Carlisle (2005)

[Come on then] if you [think you] can [take me] on, you upstart knockoff ❋ Anime Watcher (2013)

"What do they do, [I don't even know] em?"..."uhh excuse me?"...."What does Upstart Holdings Inc do?"...."Uhh well, um, um, um I'm sorry."..."What kind of company is it?"...."yeah, um, you're breaking up", *[Curb your enthusiasm] [theme song] plays*. ❋ PuruSaxena (2021)