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

The position of pupils while reading should be erect, easy, and graceful.

From New National Fourth Reader by Barnes, Charles J.

The shoulders should be square, and the body should be erect upon the hips.

From Frank's Campaign, or, Farm and Camp by Alger, Horatio

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

They seem, themselves, to avoid the horizontal position as much as possible, when they are in a raving state: and when so confined that they cannot be erect, will keep themselves seated upon the breech.

From Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by Haslam, John