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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a specified area or place
Example:
you shouldn't be up here
Synonyms:
over here; up here
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Context examples:
"I'm not feeling well," said the Scarecrow, with a smile, "for it is very tedious being perched up here night and day to scare away crows."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Jump up here.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And, with a strange pang, I now reflected that, long as I had been shut up here, no message had been sent to ask how I was, or to invite me to come down: not even little Adele had tapped at the door; not even Mrs. Fairfax had sought me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
No drop shall pass my lips, Jim, if you will swear, wet or shine, blow or snow, to come up here twice in every week, that I may see you and speak with you, for, indeed, there are times when I am very lonesome.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I came up here alone, for I am very sad. There was no letter for me.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
As I was saying, up here I thought all men and women were brilliant and radiant.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“Well, step up here, Dick, and let me see your tongue. No, I should be surprised if he did! The man's tongue is fit to frighten the French. Another fever.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Jo's desk up here was an old tin kitchen which hung against the wall.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Under the stress of famine or of conquest they have made their way up here.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I leave it to your judgment whether it was possible for the thief to have come up here without disturbing us.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
