Example Sentences
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The corporation responded by choosing the State Street Research & Management Co., of which Cabot is a partner, but uprightly turned over the commission-rich buying and selling chores to some 100 independent brokers.
From Time Magazine Archive
He walked uprightly at liberty under a $10,000-bond profferred by his congregation.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the Lord God is a sun and a shield: The Lord will give grace and glory: No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall
Besides, it takes more trouble to conceal a sinister life than to act uprightly.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob
"Fly love, that art so sprightly, To Bonny-boots uprightly; And when in Heav'n you meet him, Say that I kindly greet him; And that his Oriana, True widow maid still followeth Diana."
