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

Thus the seed may be erect while the fruit itself is pendent, in the ordinary meaning of that term.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

In both cases, supposing the coralline to be erect, the capitulum is placed upwards, with its orifice towards the branch to which it is attached, and consequently with its carina outwards.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

His posture will be erect and manly:— he will move from his ground but seldom, and not even then too precipitately; and his advances will be few and moderate.

From Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. by Jones, E.

She had placed a pillow behind her, so that her back might be erect; but her neck was fixed as that of one in a cataleptic trance.

From The Jewel of Seven Stars by Stoker, Bram