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While doing some translating, I stumbled upon this usage of 立ち上がる。

> わたしが **ゴミ袋を手に立ち上がる** と、イツカ君とお姉ちゃんは二人一緒にわたしの所へやって来ました。

It doesn't match up with the definitions I'm familiar with, nor any of the
other ones I found in the
[dictionary](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%AB%8B%E3%81%A1%E4%B8%8A%E3%81%8C%E3%82%8B%E3%83%BB%E7%AB%8B%E4%B8%8A%E3%81%8C%E3%82%8B-320473).

> ①座ったり腰かけたりしていた人が，立つ。 「座席から－・る」  
>  ③まったく打ちひしがれていた者が，勢いを取り戻す。「破産の憂き目から－・る」 「廃墟の中から－・る」

A [google
search](https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%82%92%E6%89%8B%E3%81%AB%E7%AB%8B%E3%81%A1%E4%B8%8A%E3%81%8C%E3%82%8B&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)
for ~を手に立ち上がる with over a million hits suggests it's used often enough.

> 総大将は **軍扇を手に立ち上がる**

Could someone elaborate on what's going on and the precise meaning of the
word?
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words transitivity
Meaning and transitivity of ゴミ袋を手に立ち上がる
して has been omitted from 〜を〜に（して）:

> わたしがゴミ袋を手に **（して）** 立ち上がる

して is often omitted from this construction. In this case, we can tell it's
omitted for two reasons:

  1. The following verb is intransitive and can't take an を-argument.
  2. ゴミ袋を and 手に don't make sense as arguments of 立ち上がる here.

So the key isn't the meaning of the verb, but the ellipsis of する.
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`A を B に` is a common literary adverbial expression that means _with A in/on
B_ , literally or figuratively.

In most cases you have a part of body in _B_ , as `小銭を手に` _with coins in
**hand**_ , `期待を胸に` _with expectation in **chest**_ (= heart), `ドアを背に` _with
door in **back**_ (= with back against the door), `リュックを(背/肩)に` _with backpack
on **shoulder**_ etc.

But it's also frequently used with position/moment words in _B_ , notably
`心配をよそに` _with concern in **elsewhere**_ (= much to others' unease), `敵を前に`
_with enemy in **front**_ (= confronting one's enemy), `その手紙を最後に` _with the
letter at the **end**_ (= no contact since the letter) etc.

snailboat's analysis isn't wrong, but you can't expect ～に and ～にして to be used
interchangeably in real life, because:

> ゴミ袋を手に立ち上がる _to stand up with garbage bag in hand_  
>  ゴミ袋を手にして立ち上がる _to stand up after grasping the garbage bag_

～にして contains a verb _te-form_ , thus always describes two motions occurring
in succession, but not concurrently.

Here is [a Japanese thesis](http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110008005817) about the
difference between AをBに with and without して. You can also find more examples
of this construction, which I didn't cover here.

P.S.  
I forgot the most crucial thing. So the 立ち上がる is but an ordinary intransitive
verb "to stand up".
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