"Run up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... occupied with the prisons of the police, situated on a lower floor, where there were numbers of robbers, seldom came near me. One of these assistants was an old man, more than seventy, but still able to discharge his laborious duties, and to run up and down the steps to the different prisons; another was a young man about twenty-five, more bent upon giving an account of his love affairs than eager to ...
— My Ten Years' Imprisonment • Silvio Pellico
... to know a soldier who used to run up in this country," said the stranger, musing. "Dillon; that's ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
... proposal and the note with alacrity. "I'm sure I'm very much obliged to you, sir," he said gratefully. "I'll just run up to my cottage when we land to get some dry clothes, and then I'll come straight back and take 'er over. She won't come to no harm, not with Luke Gow on board; you can reckon on ...
— A Rogue by Compulsion • Victor Bridges
... arrangements; when, the ship having become shut in from the lugger by the promontory, as expected, the boats departed. Half an hour later, or just as the Proserpine, after wearing, had got near the point where the lugger would be again open, the boats returned and were run up. Presently the two vessels were again in sight of each other, everything on board of each remaining apparently in statu quo. Thus far, certainly, the stratagem had been adroitly managed. To add to it, the batteries now fired ten or twelve guns at the frigate, taking ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper
... bring Dunk in here," warned Chip, "or things might happen. I don't want to run up against him again till I've got two good feet ...
— Chip, of the Flying U • B. M. Bower
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