"Stay up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... It would be like making one of those wretched toy-houses out of bricks, and I know I should never fit in the pieces properly. Still, you can't stay up there for ever, ...
— The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 • Various
... Peggy laughing in spite of her anxiety to get rid of the black. "Thee is the dearest thing that ever was. I do want the kitchen a little while. Go up to my room, and thee will find a string of yellow beads on the chest of drawers. Thee may have them, Sukey, if thee will stay up there for ...
— Peggy Owen and Liberty • Lucy Foster Madison
... rest of this watch and the middle watch, Mr. McGaw," offered the captain. "I want to stay up to-night. I ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... Ragnhild confessed that the Captain himself had asked her to stay up that night in ...
— Wanderers • Knut Hamsun
... watch her; my father came, but could not stay long, for my mother was so sick. But the teachers took good care of Annie, and the large girls helped them. I could only sit by her in daytime, for the teachers said I was too young to stay up nights. The dormitory girls were very kind to Annie, and they used to sit up nights, when they had worked all day and were so tired, ...
— Big and Little Sisters • Theodora R. Jenness
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