"Raise hell" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "I'll bet it was Gussie's fellow. I've suspected him. Him and her stay in, hitting the pipe all the time. That costs money, and she hasn't been out for I don't know how long. Let's go down there and raise hell." ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... made the Glee Club, and I have promised to join the Banjo Club, and I am still on the track squad, and that's more than half the fellows in this fraternity can say. Most of 'em don't do anything but go on parties and raise hell generally. How come you're picking on me? Why don't you ride some of them for a while? I don't see where they're ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks
... married man, and if I lugged one of them ladies home with me, my old woman wouldn't do a thing but raise hell! Boss, they're raw; yes, sir, that's it—they're raw!" Then fearing he had gone too far in an adverse criticism, he added, ...
— The Just and the Unjust • Vaughan Kester
... of ours are each greater in weight than ten of yours. Yes, and I have seen another with but one blow of his hand raise hell! ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt
... grimly while he stamped his right foot into its boot, "they ain't going at it the right way. They're tryin' to tear down, when they ain't ready to build anything on the wreck. They're right about the wrong; but they're wrong as the devil about the way to mend it. Them pamphlets will sure raise hell amongst the Mexicans, if the thing ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower |
