"Brush up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... certainly come very hard upon the subalterns," continued Hixley, with much gravity. "They'll have to brush up their sol mi fas. All the solos are ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... afford to hire many of these outside speakers for prohibition—it costs too much to get them here. But I have told Mr. Haley to brush up his ideas, and by and by we'll have him make a speech in Polktown. He can practise on the pigs for a while," added the elder laughing; "and maybe after all they won't be so dif'rent from some of them in town that I want should hear the young ...
— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long
... Adrian commiserated him. "You are tired and overwrought. Go to your room, and have a bath and a brush up. That will refresh you. Then, at half-past four, you can renew the advantages of my society at tea in the garden. Oh, you 'll find your room quite ready. I 've felt a pricking in my thumbs any time these three months. ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
... Sir he served the great Lady Kingcob and was yeoman of her wardroppe, & because a cood brush up her silkes lustely, she thought he would curry the enemies coates as soundly, and so by her commendations, he was made Captaine in the ...
— A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III • Various
... to brush up your classical education, and translate into terms suited to your intelligence. I will have that document from you or—in four more ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph
... the mansion of her noble relative, three miles off, in a magnificent carriage that was sent for her, in which she must have felt insignificant. Perhaps she got there in time to dress for dinner, perhaps not. Wearers of uniforms wash and brush up: they don't dress. ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... forget all about how to make love during ten years of matrimony, but it's wonderful how quickly he can brush up on the fine points again after he becomes ...
— A Guide to Men - Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl • Helen Rowland
... started to "brush up" her hair, she eyed it with a regard more favourable than usual. "Rich chestnut tresses!" She lingered to contemplate, in the mirror, the great grey eyes which looked back at her from their subtle depths. She had a suspicion the act was silly, but ...
— Missy • Dana Gatlin
... that it never has been guessed right by anybody; yet the archbishop said there was an answer, although he did not say what it was. May be you can solve the riddle, my dears, if you brush up your wits a bit? Let me know as soon as you think you have the ...
— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 • Various
... despair possessed him. He tried writing, but he always came home from the office so tired that his brain could not work. For half the year he did not reach his dim up-town flat till after dark, and could only "brush up" for dinner, and afterward lie on the lounge with his pipe, while his sister droned through the evening paper. Sometimes he spent an evening at the theatre; or he dined out, or, more rarely, strayed off with an acquaintance or ...
— The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) • Edith Wharton
... this is Master Jones, who is going to read Latin with us. Miss Steele is one of my teachers, Jones, and we three are going to brush up our classics ...
— Tom, Dick and Harry • Talbot Baines Reed
... own room to brush up for lunch. Although he had not taken the trouble to tell Bristow, he had already arranged with Golson to have the "extra man" on the job. He was taking no chances. He smiled when he thought of the sick man's ...
— The Winning Clue • James Hay, Jr. |
