Then they shoulder their burdens of iron and rice and begin to strain up into the mountains.

Clarissa's face blushed to see her bosom straining up the way it did.

From a hundred yards away, as the van strained up the rutted dirt road, we could all see her clearly.

It was just low enough so Stubbs could strain up on tiptoe and touch the wood between the beams.

He could see the two pilots straining up at each other with goggled gaze.

The Sun's light flooded the garden; flowers - white and yellow - strained up toward the sky.

I cannot sleep for those faces gazing, straining up.

He concentrated on the statue, the impressive figure straining up and away from the flaming orb.

He strained up against the straps and chains.