This novel also features rising sea levels, but they rise upon an initially cosy world.
Three towering figures rise upon a stage, like Roman columns rising from the earth.
I imagine some fans of American football felt their hackles rise upon reading that.
As the aircraft tumbles and spins, voices shout "God is great!" and thick black smoke rises upon ground impact.
At eight o'clock on the evening of Dec. 5, 1876, the curtain of the Brooklyn Theatre, in Washington Street, near Johnson, rose upon a gala performance of The Two Orphans.
Jeff Cowie's opulent sets range from the Hillcrest manse with its French doors, African masks and Japanese screens to an eye-popping second-act curtain that rises upon a sarcophagus and leads into Lord Edgar's first line, "Ah Egypt".
Test scores were already rising upon Dr. Andres Alonso's arrival in Baltimore in 2007, but he should be commended for his vision and accomplishments in transforming Baltimore's schools.
The day begins to break now; and in truth it might be better for the national glory even that the sun should sometimes set upon the British dominions than that it should ever rise upon so vile a wonder as Tom.
To use Tyndall's Victorian language, if the heat-trapping gases were removed from the air for a single night "the warmth of our fields and gardens would pour itself unrequited into space, and the sun would rise upon an island held fast in the iron grip of frost".
Mr. Petronio has also borrowed from his earlier works — resurrecting them — but when, near the work's three-quarter mark, the curtain climactically falls only to rise upon what looks like an old Petronio dance, the feeling is less than transcendent.
