"Cough up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... eh?" the man repeated, speaking in a thick, disagreeable tone. "Why, I watched him in here not ten minutes ago. Now then, young lady, guess you'd better cough up the truth. Where's this precious ...
— The Black Box • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Skidder. "You gotta get other quarters. It don't pay us to keep on buying benches and mending windows, even if you cough up for 'em. It don't pay us to rent the hall to your club and get all this here notoriety, what with your red flags and the po-lice hanging around and ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers
... vile wretch!" I cried. "It's you that's lying. I've a mind to choke your dirty throat. But I'll hound you till I make you cough up that ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... which the nurse had stationed herself. She was wiping the child's face, which was red and swollen and covered with moisture, the nostrils working rapidly, and the little patient vainly endeavoring at intervals to cough up the obstruction ...
— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt
... scraped from his throat. "Now look here! I know confounded well you know where he is. If you don't want me to hand you trouble by the bushel, you'd better cough up that little dwarf. ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White |
