sit-up

It's the equivalent of having a nagging teacher or parent telling you to "sit up!"

That 31 percent number made me sit up straight for one reason.

All night she would sit up sewing, pressing rhinestones, going blind.

It was so hard to sit up there and stay composed and keep track of everything—to process what the facts were.

Those last two points should make folks sit up a little straighter.

The hut was barely high enough to let him sit up, and long enough to let him lie down—not to stretch out.

They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence.

By that time the fellow I'd kicked had so far recovered as to sit up, and the look he gave us was a scorcher.

It is not an easy matter to sit up in a gale of wind, with freezing spray, and sometimes green seas, sweeping over one!

At dusk he left off, saying he should get it done at night, his senses would come then, and he should be glad to sit up.