"They shall never get the upper hand!" said Alfred.

All the preceding classes that got the upper hand, sought to fortify their already acquired status by subjecting society at large to their conditions of appropriation.

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

"Now, Athos!" said D'Artagnan, "do you begin to believe that it's a ruined cause, and that what with your Harrisons, Joyces, Bridges and Cromwells, we shall never get the upper hand?"

At the hearin' of this, ye may swear, though, I was as mad as a grasshopper, but I remimbered that I was Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt, and that it wasn't althegither gentaal to lit the anger git the upper hand o' the purliteness, so I made light o' the matter and kipt dark, and got quite sociable wid the little chap, and afther a while what did he do but ask me to go wid him to the widdy's, saying he wud give me the feshionable inthroduction to her leddyship.

'Where are you going?' said Rose-red; 'you surely don't want to go into the water?' 'I am not such a fool!' cried the dwarf; 'don't you see that the accursed fish wants to pull me in?' The little man had been sitting there fishing, and unluckily the wind had tangled up his beard with the fishing-line; a moment later a big fish made a bite and the feeble creature had not strength to pull it out; the fish kept the upper hand and pulled the dwarf towards him.

In all their former intercourse it had been she who by virtue of her sex and his blind love for her had kept the upper hand. And now the position was changed.

I've got the upper hand over you, Fagin; and, d--me, I'll keep it.

What is more, even in the acutest paroxysm of this cowardly fever, I dreamed of getting the upper hand, of dominating them, carrying them away, making them like me--if only for my "elevation of thought and unmistakable wit." They would abandon Zverkov, he would sit on one side, silent and ashamed, while I should crush him.

Nevertheless, tranquillity was gradually restored, the scholar held his peace, the mendicant counted over some coins in his hat, and the piece resumed the upper hand.

NOTTINGHAM -- Pakistan got an upper hand in the match after Shoaib Malik got the better of danger man Ben Stokes who was caught behind by wicket keeper Sarfraz Ahmed with score on 118-4 in the 22nd over of the match at Trent Bridge.

Both teams have played seven matches against each other with Islamabad having the upper hand over Quetta by winning four games to three.

In spite of having an upper hand against New Zealand in the ongoing five-match series, Kohli noted that if the Kiwi side went on to have great wins at the league matches of the World Cup then there will be no guarantee that India will have an upper hand.

The next game the Lady Skins couldn't quite keep the momentum as they still had good plays, but the Lady Explorers has the upper hand. The Lady Redskins lost the second one 11-25.