STAND-UP • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Stand-up

... shawl is not exactly a real diagonal Osnabruck cashmere, what harm is done as long as the lady gets the value for her money? And if she don't get the value for her money, whose fault is that? Isn't it a fair stand-up fight? And when she tries to buy for 4l., a shawl which she thinks is worth about 8l., isn't she dealing on the same principles herself? If she be lucky enough to possess credit, the shawl is sent ...

— The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - By One of the Firm • Anthony Trollope

... that it would be useless to make a stand-up fight against all three, but yet at the same time flight was impossible, because of his exhaustion, caused by the struggle with ...

— Messenger No. 48 • James Otis