Pointing to horizontal splits where the trunk was most severely bent, he said it wouldn't spring upright again.
McTeer is a marvel, so avid with malice that she makes the feathers on her hat spring upright.
One of the more common problems occurred in the sitting position, which was really less like sitting than it was squatting in a way that increased stability and made it easy to spring upright if you had to.
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, upright pianos (i.e., pianos with vertical strings and soundboard) took three different forms.
These are young ginkgos, very young for a tree that can live 1,000 years, upright, branches strictly laddered.
Last October, Peter Coco, 28, a professional bassist who has played with the jazz guitarist Frank Vignola, got an $8,500 upright bass made by Mr. Mirabella.
I simply can't imagine that there are not 10,000 or 1,000 upright Christians who refuse to go along by raising their voice in protest".
These days, relatives mark their loved ones' remains with $500 footstones instead of $2,000 upright monuments, but harder times don't diminish the value he sees in the work: Immortality for the dead and, in a way, for himself.
Among Xi'an's many notable sites is the Forest of Steles Museum, a treasure house of Chinese calligraphy with more than 3,000 upright stone slabs representing valued pieces of brushwork by many reputed calligraphers; it was established in 1078 during the Bei (Northern) Song dynasty.
An ancient Australian kangaroo apparently walked a lot like people do today: upright, and stepping one foot at a time.
An inspector from the Canal and River Trust, which manages the network, said the 1,140 upright railings were examined just weeks before Kristopher's death and had passed a test as "fit for purpose".
