"Make up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... conversations and written contributions I thought I might make up a readable series of papers; a not wholly unwelcome string of recollections, anticipations, suggestions, too often perhaps repetitions, that would be to the twilight what my earlier series had been ...
— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... Just at this time came news of a new fever case at Uppingham. We knew what might be the significance of the news, and began to make up our minds ...
— Uppingham by the Sea - a Narrative of the Year at Borth • John Henry Skrine
... godly, as he comes to see the evil of things, maketh his objections, and findeth fault, and counts them unprofitable and vain (Isa 29; Matt 15; Mark 7). But they again, seeing the things they have made are the very excellencies of human invention, and things added as a supplement to make up what, and wherein, as they think, that man that was faithful over his own house as a son was defective. They are resolved to stand upon their points, and not to budge an inch from the things that are ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... some unexplained way, they succeeded in getting a spinning-wheel. The little wife, says David, "knowed exactly how to use it. She was also a good weaver. Being very industrious, she had, in little or no time, a fine web of cloth ready to make up. She was good at that too, and at almost anything ...
— David Crockett: His Life and Adventures • John S. C. Abbott
... me for a minute, a little minute, Harriet?" she would beg, so piteously, and Harriet would soothe her and try to give her hope. The fifth day he was very low and the doctor told us to make up our minds for anything: he hadn't slept all night. I took Harriet by the shoulders and asked her if she could not possibly make him conscious—before. I don't know why I asked her and not the doctor, but I did. She promised ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
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