"Haul up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... silent for a few moments, and then, in a way that seemed to suggest that he had been trying to find some objection to giving his consent, "Very well, Mr Lennox," he said.—"Here, sergeant, haul up the ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... offing; while a heavy-built, square-rigged, trim-looking craft that hovered about them was evidently a man-of-war. The strangers seemed to have sighted the American vessel; for the merchantmen were seen to hastily haul up and run off to the north-east, while the man-of-war edged ...
— The Naval History of the United States - Volume 2 (of 2) • Willis J. Abbot
... us," Jessie took heart to say. "We know just what to do. Go upstairs again, Amy, and haul up this end of the contraption. ...
— The Campfire Girls of Roselawn - A Strange Message from the Air • Margaret Penrose
... is any discrepancy between my vision and my action, I am not going to be bullied out of my life and out of living my life the way I want to, by the way I look. Though it mock me, I will not haul down my flag. I will haul up my life! ...
— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee
... a cop threatened to arrest me for cutting up a horse in the city limits. It took three hours to satisfy the red-tape requirements and get a permit from the Board of Health, and then I had a long, sickening job, for we had to haul up what was left of the poor beast in fragments, and all the time Wallace was snapping at them or rushing at us. We gave him several nasty cracks over the snout, the only place where a lion seems to be sensitive to pain, but it only made him uglier than ...
— Side Show Studies • Francis Metcalfe
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