drawn up
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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.
Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.
A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way.
No masterpieces in huge frames to worship, ... and yet there are the days when every street corner rounds itself into a sunlit surprise, a painting or a phrase, canoes drawn up by the market, the harbour's blue, the barracks. So much to do still, all of it praise.
But when the dust has drawn up the blood of a man, once he is dead, there is no return to life.