"Play up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this priest, or Moolah, who is coming to us, a hint that we really are softening a bit upon the point. I don't think, considering the hole that we are in, that there can be very much objection to that. Then, when he comes, we might play up and take an interest and ask for more instruction, and in that way hold the matter over for a day or two. Don't you think that would be the ...
— A Desert Drama - Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" • A. Conan Doyle
... manager, lying in bed, read a new play. He read three or four pages and then in irritation threw the play on to the floor, put out the candle, and drew the bedclothes over him; a little later, after thinking over it, he took the play up again and began to read it; then, getting angry with the uninspired tedious work, he again threw it on the floor and put out the candle. A little later he once more took up the play and read it, then he produced it ...
— Note-Book of Anton Chekhov • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
... There was sadly little of the "angel child" about them. Their intuition was keen enough to penetrate their aunt's secret wishes and tastes, and they were occasionally tempted, for the spoils to be gotten out of it, to play up to that lady's ideals. But Aunt Anne was considered almost too easy by the Madigans, whom honor restricted to those foemen worthy of their steel. Frances was the only one who could, without losing caste, cater to her aunt's well-known and deeply ...
— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson
... bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote; "Play up! Play up! And ...
— It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration • Joseph Morris
... Play up, Knype! Now, lads! Give 'em hot hell!" Different voices heartily encouraged the home team as the ...
— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett
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