"Well up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... themselves well up and eagerly watched for the sight of land to the southward. At Uncle Prudent's request Frycollin tried to pump the cook as to whither the engineer was bound, but what reliance could be placed on the information given by this Gascon? Sometimes Robur was an ex-minister of the ...
— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne
... in the strenuous sport as many a younger man and his knowledge of the grand art of venerie, and his ardour for being always ahead with the hounds, is noted by all who may happen to see him while jaunting through the Foret de Compiegne, keeping well up with the traditions of his worthy elder, the "Premier Cavalier" of the First Empire, ...
— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield
... flat, but the blow was well up on the head and didn't matter much—I had a good thick skull. And I had one good ...
— Joe Wilson and His Mates • Henry Lawson
... when you are ready, I'll tell you how to manage. My poor mother used to smoke very well up this ...
— The Children of the New Forest • Captain Marryat
... thrown forward. Then suddenly came recognition. "Grey—grey!—See the flag! They're ours! See—" Rumour broke into jubilant shouting. "It's the head of Jackson's column! It's the Valley men! Hurrah! Hurrah! Stonewall! Stonewall Jackson! Yaaaih! Yaaaaaihhhh!—'Hello, boys! You've been doing pretty well up there in the blessed old Valley!' 'Hello, boys! If you don't look out you'll be getting your names in the papers!' 'Hello, boys! come to help us kill mosquitoes? Haven't got any quinine handy, have you?' 'Hello, boys! Hello ...
— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston
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