"Up here" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I've quitted the comforts of town In order to keep open house for the lot In a chamber provided by Brown. They shall come to my bedroom; I'll give them good cheer; I'll ring for a handmaid and tell her To serve us at once with a dinner up here, Including the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 • Various
... Reuben," said Mackenzie; "besides, I have been warned of this very branch by an old Indian whom I met last winter, and who said he had been up here in his youth. Therefore, though appearances are against it, I shall ...
— The Pioneers • R.M. Ballantyne
... up here like a fortress at night," said Mr. Santley. "Come in and let me hear what you have to say, young man. What do you ...
— Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns - Sinking the German U-Boats • Halsey Davidson
... three years longer the embers of war continued to blaze up here and there. In 1867 an inter-tribal quarrel arose in the hitherto peaceful north. A few lives were lost, and a day was fixed for a pitched battle near Pakaraka—the opposing forces numbering nearly 600 men. No such muster had been seen in that ...
— A History of the English Church in New Zealand • Henry Thomas Purchas
... much; but I dislike her hat-box more. It is large and square and black, and it has no business in the cabin, it ought to be in the baggage-room. Lying up here I am freed from its tyranny, but on Saturday, when I was unpacking, it made my life a burden. It blocks up the floor under my hooks, and when I hang things up I fall over it backwards, when I sit on the floor, which I have to do every time I pull out my trunk, it hits me savagely ...
— Olivia in India • O. Douglas
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