"Hard up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and all that time the Hiram Dusenbery Company has been trying, by fair means or otherwise, to buy it of him, but Old Iron-Toe put the price so high that they preferred to wait, hoping that when he got hard up he might be willing to ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods • Jessie Graham Flower
... mentioned the fact to an Italian colleague, who had repeated it in writing to his sister, who lived somewhere in Piedmont and had spoken of it to some one else; and so on, till the story had reached the ears of a newspaper paragraph-writer who was hard up for a 'stick' of 'copy.' All this the Princess knew, or invented, and she ran off her explanation with a fluency that disconcerted ...
— The White Sister • F. Marion Crawford
... leaped from the tent the horseman shouted and drove big rowel spurs hard up the flank ...
— The Outcasts • W. A. Fraser
... five shillings for that little essay; not much, you will say, but better than nothing. The editor praised me and asked for more. I write occasionally in 'The Flower of Youth,' and when I am very hard up I am glad of the few shillings my writings ...
— A Bunch of Cherries - A Story of Cherry Court School • L. T. Meade
... "Hard up your helm!" the captain shouted aft, and, paying off like a bird, the Ocean Star swept by the stranger's stern near enough to almost touch her. As they went sailing past her, it became Captain Lane's turn to bend forward with a lantern, ...
— Sustained honor - The Age of Liberty Established • John R. Musick,
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