"Liven" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of this regular heavy drinking was to jade me. My mind grew so accustomed to spring and liven by artificial means that without artificial means it refused to spring and liven. Alcohol became more and more imperative in order to meet people, in order to become sociably fit. I had to get the kick and the hit of the stuff, the crawl of the maggots, the genial ...
— John Barleycorn • Jack London
... going to take you to Nikko to spend a few days, and in order to liven up things a bit the boys are coming, too, ...
— The Motor Maids in Fair Japan • Katherine Stokes
... complainant, Jack Holloway, defendant's attorney of record, Leslie Coombes. In spite of the outrageous frivolity of the charge, he began to laugh. It was obviously an attempt to ridicule Kellogg's own complaint out of court. Every judicial jurisdiction ought to have at least one Gus Brannhard to liven things up a little. Race ...
— Little Fuzzy • Henry Beam Piper
... Squire diden' want your mar ter sell him ter hees own mammy. It looked unnatchel. Free Fanny, that's hees mammy, wuz mity rich, en owned six colored peeple hersef. Shee's liven' yet en the city, en when she dies Squire will get ...
— That Old-Time Child, Roberta • Sophie Fox Sea
... chap, you must liven up. She would have it I should come for you. My word! I believe you're funking! You look absurdly rotten like it, ...
— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson
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