"Take up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... any of our readers are desirous of looking into the rationale of irrationality, to employ a highly 'unitive' phrase, let them take up, if they can command it, the 'Annual Report of the Managers of the New York State Lunatic Asylum,' one of the clearest and most comprehensive documents in its kind that we have ever perused. It proceeds from the capable ...
— Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 - Volume 23, Number 3 • Various
... the year 1608, determining to take up my abode, when not in Paris, at Villebon, where I had lately enlarged my property, I went thither from Rouen with my wife, to superintend the building and mark out certain plantations which I projected. As the heat that month ...
— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman
... labored for the common good, and bore each other's burdens, it is naturally to be expected that the people of Hingham aided the cause of freedom and the liberties of their country by resolutions and votes, and by liberal supplies of money. Nor did they hesitate to take up arms and sacrifice their lives for their country's good. From the beginning to the end of the Revolution, in many a hard-fought battle, in the sufferings and hardships of camp and march, from the struggle ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 • Various
... over it. Much can be learned about pruning from books and by watching an expert gardener while giving the annual pruning; but the true science of trimming a vine is best acquired by watching buds develop, by noting what they will do, where they go, and how much space they will take up in a single summer. In this way one will eventually realize how much is wrapped up in the insignificant little buds, and now great the folly of leaving too many on ...
— The Home Acre • E. P. Roe
... that doesn't alter the fact that he has managed it somehow. I don't engage my mates for amusements of that kind, Mr. Grain. I've got them here to work, and help me do my duty by the owners. If they take up low class trades like artisting, they must be prepared to stand the consequences. You'll remember the orders I've given you? If I'm wanted, you'll say I'll ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne
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