The sole holds with the upper leather. [ Proverb ]

The most magnificent and costly dome.
Is but an upper chamber to a tomb;
No spot on earth but has supplied a grave,
And human skulls the spacious ocean pave. [ Young ]

The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
Their brazen lips are learned teachers.
From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air,
Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw.
Shriller than trumpets under the Law,
Now a sermon and now a prayer. [ Longfellow ]

A true reformation must begin at the upper end. [ Proverb ]

Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?
The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky,
Thou still canst find the color of thy wing.
The hue of May.
Warbler, why speed thy southern flight? ah, why,
Thou too, whose song first told us of the Spring?
Whither away? [ E. C. Stedman ]

High houses are usually empty in the upper storey. [ German Proverb ]

That is the upper end where the chief person sits. [ Proverb ]

The lower millstone grinds as much as the upper one. [ Proverb ]

A beautiful woman in the upper parts terminating in a fish. [ Horace ]

Its summit stretches as far into the upper ether as its root into the nether deep.

Science is a good piece of furniture for a man to have in an upper chamber, provided he has commonsense on the ground floor. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common-sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has not got plenty of good common-sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]