"Jack up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... chief life saver. "Jack up that cable, boys; she's sagging. I guess the old ship is working farther in. Jack ...
— The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast • Victor Appleton
... for part of the season. These people don't stay anywhere. Just long enough in one place to upset everything with their extravagance. That's the reason I didn't ask you and Jack up this summer." ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... easier than another it is the third, but none of them are by any means sinecures. When I was a copy operator I used to imagine it was an easy thing to sit over on the other side of the table and give orders, "jack up" operators, conductors and engineers, and incidentally haul some men over the coals every time I had to call them a few minutes; but when I reached the summit of an operator's ambition, and was assigned to a trick I found things very different. Copying with no responsibility was dead ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
... and the Old Man had been at home Happy Jack would have been taken unquestioningly into the guest chamber—which was a square, three-windowed room off the big livingroom. More than one of them had occupied it upon occasion. They took Happy Jack up there and put him to bed quite as a matter-of-course, and when he was asleep they lingered upon the wide, front porch; the hammock of the Little Doctor squeaked under the weight of Andy Green, and the wide-armed chairs received the weary forms of divers young cowpunchers who did not give a thought ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower
... tell you. I refused to give Jack up, for I did not like the looks of the man, and moreover Jack did not wish to go with him. I told him he would have to prove his claim ...
— Young Captain Jack - The Son of a Soldier • Horatio Alger and Arthur M. Winfield |
