"Pull up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... institution to which Irishmen have a decided objection. The old turnpike-keeper, a discharged soldier, who had only lately been sent there, and was thus unacquainted with any of us, cautiously closed the gate, knowing that travellers often forgot to pull up and pay. We, as loyal subjects of His Majesty, were ready to disburse whatever was demanded of us. I accordingly put my hand in my pocket, but not a coin could I find in it, and, knowing that my brothers-in-law were not over-willing to draw their purse-strings if there was any one else ready to ...
— Paddy Finn • W. H. G. Kingston
... sort of place. Sylvia and Hester, Margaret was good enough to show me what she calls heather. There are a few straggling plants just at the other side of that bit of common. I don't want ours to die slowly. Our plants shall go at once. No, we don't water them. Sylvia, go into your garden and pull up the plant; and, Hester, you do likewise Go, girls; go ...
— Betty Vivian - A Story of Haddo Court School • L. T. Meade
... dust. It would race toward you, with the soft thunder of hoofs in the loose soil. When the horses were almost upon you—with a hand of steel—chief Khama would rein in his charger and his bodyguard would pull up ...
— The Book of Missionary Heroes • Basil Mathews
... roving Projectile must pull up somewhere in the long run," replied Ardan, "and I should like to know where that somewhere can be, if not ...
— All Around the Moon • Jules Verne
... the house, while the children set to work weeding the rest of the flower-bed. They were very careful not to pull up any of the flowers with the weeds. When they had finished, the flower-bed looked beautiful, cleared as it was of ...
— A Hive of Busy Bees • Effie M. Williams
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