"Hitch up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thinks he's in love with this Richie woman," Martha went on—but William made his escape. He had to go and hitch up, he said. ...
— The Awakening of Helena Richie • Margaret Deland
... said he; and, catching my arm, he took me out of the door and along the track in the night, and round the corner of the railroad hotel into view of more mountains that lay to the south. "You stay here to-morrow," he pursued, swiftly, "and I'll hitch up and drive you over there. I'll show you some rock behind Helen's Dome that'll beat any you've struck in the whole course of your life. It's on the wood reservation, and when the government abandons the Post, as ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister
... now, on the edge of town," we said, "but our boys will keep them there." Our host and hostess moaned their unbelief. "However," added Harry, "I'll go tell the old man to hitch up the little mules and—" ...
— The Cavalier • George Washington Cable
... the end of the first year of the marriage, upon a bleak, forbidding March day—a day of bitter wind and icy sleet,—there rode one to the Overholt door who called upon Pap and Aunt Cornelia to hitch up and come with all possible haste to old Eph'm Blackshears, Cornelia's father—a man who had lived to fourscore, and who now lay at his last, asking for his ...
— Southern Lights and Shadows • Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden
... up under the influence of a sudden saving inspiration. "I'll have to go up to get the sorrel mare shod. So, if you've any little errands you want done at the store, Ma, just make a memo of them while I hitch up." ...
— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
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