be erect
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So yeah, that femme performance is so defining of how to hold yourself, to be erect because matriarchs are the oaks of families.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2024
Your body should be erect, your head up, your heels together, your right foot pointing straight to your front, your left foot at right angles to it pointing to the left.
From Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence by Headley, Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Baron
‘Take this water and sprinkle it on one of the fallen trees, and say to it: “So let all the trees of the forest stand upright,” and in a moment they will be erect again.’
From The Brown Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew
In sitting the trunk should be erect and the hips should touch the back of the chair.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.
The rider’s body should be erect but pliable, neither obeying too much the action of the horse, nor yet resisting it.
From The Lady and Her Horse Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation by Jenkins, T. A.
