For a long moment after the music's crescendo climax, they remained standing silently next to one another with upraised arms.

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He clutched a single piece in each of his upraised hands.

NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

Cast out by frightened shipmates, Jonah expresses terror, arms upraised, within the swells outside a bent, dark, roller-coaster vessel that creates a strong diagonal in the composition.

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My mother stopped Pura with an upraised finger.

NEWYORKER: The Pura Principle

When his tower was high enough that he could touch his upraised elbow to the ceiling, he went all the way down to the bottom and climbed all the way back up to the top carrying a long stone roughly the size of his leg.

NEWYORKER: Ziggurat