"Serve up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a noble supper provided in the saloon to-night; serve up my best wines, and let me ...
— The Duenna • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
... have to-day persuaded her to accept his offer. It will be an excellent thing for the dear woman. It will be an absorbing occupation. It will divert the current of her thoughts from the sentimentality that I deprecate, and provided she does not serve up hard-boiled facts to me at dinner, she will be the ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke
... a sharper, a slippery knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an impostor, a gallows-bird, a blackguard, a twister, a troublesome fellow, a licker-up of hashes. If they call me this, when they meet me, let them do to me absolutely what they please. And if they like, by Ceres, let them serve up a sausage out of me to ...
— The Clouds • Aristophanes
... degree, but, generally speaking, most disagreeable: first, because the meal is devoured with a rapidity which a pack of fox-hounds, after a week's fast, might in vain attempt to rival; and, secondly, because it is impossible to serve up dinners for hundreds without nine-tenths thereof being cold. The best of the large hotels I dined at in New York, as regards cuisine, &c., was decidedly the New York Hotel; but by far the most comfortable was the one I lived in—Putnam's, Union-square—which was much smaller and ...
— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray
... the Colonel's affair to take up proceedings at this point—make the coffee and the mush and keep it from burning, fry the bacon, and serve up breakfast. ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
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