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I move toward the young upstart, and he retreats.† (source)
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Mindful of being a teenaged upstart in the company of such seasoned track deities as Jesse Owens and Glenn Cunningham, Louie curbed his coltish impulses and began growing a mustache.† (source)
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Bad enough mortals won our war for us, but then that young upstart, Percy Jackson—".† (source)
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She says to Miss Barry, I hear a certain upstart from the lanes walked away from the post office exam.† (source)
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Even with a much more concealing mask, she would have recognized the upstart.† (source)
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To be uprooted by an upstart forty-three-year-old woman, and English to boot, was intolerable.† (source)
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If you were not of the right background and religion and social class and you came out of law school in that era, you joined some smaller, second-rate, upstart law firm on a rung below the big names downtown, or you simply went into business for yourself and took "whatever came in the door", that is, whatever legal work the big downtown firms did not want for themselves.† (source)
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It has always rankled him that older houses look down on the Freys as upstarts.† (source)
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Upstarting, he laid back his ears and eyed her.† (source)
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Inferno: Canto IV Broke the deep lethargy within my head A heavy thunder, so that I upstarted, Like to a person who by force is wakened; And round about I moved my rested eyes, Uprisen erect, and steadfastly I gazed, To recognise the place wherein I was.† (source)
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In medical school I have been befriended by an upstart neurologist, who believes I am acting out a great lifelong falsehood.† (source)
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Upstarts from previously unremarkable houses who suddenly find themselves in positions advantageous for business.† (source)
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I shrieked, upstarting— "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!† (source)
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Inferno: Canto IV Broke the deep lethargy within my head A heavy thunder, so that I upstarted, Like to a person who by force is wakened; And round about I moved my rested eyes, Uprisen erect, and steadfastly I gazed, To recognise the place wherein I was.† (source)
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A black shroud fell over her vision and she lost consciousness, giving Redd the only advantage she needed to put an end to the upstart princess.† (source)
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Now here were these foreigner upstarts unmasking religion!† (source)
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