"Beat up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... game!" whispered Guert; "here are fellows playing at cards, near us; let us go on and beat up ...
— Satanstoe • James Fenimore Cooper
... two ounces of the best hops in four quarts of water for half an hour, strain off the liquor and let it cool till luke-warm, and then add half a pound of brown sugar and two heaping tablespoonfuls of salt; use a little of this liquor to beat up one pound of the best flour, and gradually mix in all of it with the flour; let it stand four days to ferment in a warm place near the fire, stirring it frequently. On the third day boil and mash three pounds of potatoes, and stir them into it. On the fourth day strain and ...
— The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery • Juliet Corson
... am. I thought I should never get the men started off. Now, darling," to Charlie, "will you take your breakfast?" She put down the tray and raised him on his pillow a little. Jessie, accustomed now to invalids, beat up the pillow ...
— The Story of Jessie • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... at sea, when a strong gale from the east drove us off the land some hundred miles. The crew grumbled very much, for it would take us, they said, a fortnight or more to beat up to Callao, and they were eager to have fresh meat and fruit and vegetables, instead of salt beef and hard biscuits, ...
— Taking Tales - Instructive and Entertaining Reading • W.H.G. Kingston
... go away somewhere, for a change," she said as she beat up the pillows and smoothed out the crumpled sheets, preparatory to coaxing her ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
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