"Close up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... close up to him, and whispering the words in his ear. "Did ever counterfeit come so ...
— Mark Hurdlestone - Or, The Two Brothers • Susanna Moodie
... "Close up finish?" echoed Mick in surprise. "What name you no sit down longa that camp same as me yabber ...
— In the Musgrave Ranges • Jim Bushman
... foolishness. I can't see what the boy looks like. I can just make out a figure between the two fires. It looks slight like a boy. That's all I can make out. There are some trees over there just this side of the fires, and it looks as if we could make a landing close up to the fires. There seems to be a ...
— Boy Scouts in Southern Waters • G. Harvey Ralphson
... battalions. Of this resource the Romans then for the first time availed themselves; having a number of them which had been taken in the Punic war. Finding that the enemy kept himself quiet behind his intrenchments, he advanced close up to them, upbraiding him with cowardice; and as, notwithstanding, no opportunity of an engagement was afforded, the consul, considering how dangerous foraging must be while the camps lay so near each other, ...
— History of Rome, Vol III • Titus Livius
... chile feel, Sergeant Tony Moore; I am zactly like dat, and dat's what these men feel, too. We am all on guard. De captain say put two on guard at de shed and let de oders relieb dem ebery hour. So dey shall; but dose off duty must watch just de same. When it gets dark we get close up, so as to be ready to jump in directly we hear a stir. ...
— With Lee in Virginia - A Story of the American Civil War • G. A. Henty
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