"Do up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... time to do up all my chores and git to the depot 'fore de train; you neber fear," replied a colored lad of fifteen or sixteen, ...
— Elsie's Girlhood • Martha Finley
... To do up Laces, nicely, sew a clean piece of muslin around a long bottle, and roll the lace on it; pulling out the edge, and rolling it so that the edge will turn in, and be covered, as you roll. Fill the bottle with water, and then boil it, for an hour, in a suds made with white ...
— A Treatise on Domestic Economy - For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School • Catherine Esther Beecher
... flight was the strange way in which Therese sometimes welcomed them. When she happened to be upstairs, receiving blows from Laurent or agitated by a shock of terror, and the bell at the shop door tinkled imperiously, she had to go down, barely taking time to do up her hair or brush away the tears. On such occasions she served the persons awaiting her roughly; sometimes she even spared herself the trouble of serving, answering from the top of the staircase, that she no longer kept what was asked for. This kind of off-hand behaviour, ...
— Therese Raquin • Emile Zola
... and let yourself be seen, Phoebe. Run, there's a darling, and put on something bright, and a nice lace collar. You can have mine if you like. I shouldn't grudge nothing, not a single thing I've got, to see you looking as nice as the best there; and so you will if you take a little pains. I'd do up my hair a bit higher if I was you; why, Phoebe, I declare! you haven't got a single pad. Now what is the use of neglecting yourself, and letting others get ahead of ...
— Phoebe, Junior • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
... however, and despite Jim's reproachful appeals to my superior learning, I flatly refused to "do up" any ...
— Uncle Rutherford's Nieces - A Story for Girls • Joanna H. Mathews
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