"Perk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... blow to amount to much," observed Mr. Speed, trying to perk up, though he was hanging on by both hands to avoid bring blown ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... this case he did appear Like a slop-merchant from Wapping, And with smug face, and eye severe, On every side did perk and peer Till he saw Peter dead ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... of the station, Henry Shepard stood with his hand on the door-jamb and watched the woman and the boy. Above the scolding voice of the woman his own voice arose. "Look out, Hugh," he called. "Be on the jump, lad! Perk yourself up. She'll be biting you if you don't go mighty careful ...
— Poor White • Sherwood Anderson
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— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey
... better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief And wear ...
— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris
... so be the witch that I might a paradventer to advise, but that to be sure I should not a like to have it a thoft that I should perk and put in my oar, all agog to my betters, and moreover one of his majesty's baronets, otherwise I should say nevertheless as aforesaid that the younk lady is the flour of the flock; and if so be as I had the onnurable grace and blessin to be ...
— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft
... midst of the ice, Captain Nemo often stayed on the platform. He observed these deserted waterways carefully. I saw his calm eyes sometimes perk up. In these polar seas forbidden to man, did he feel right at home, the lord of these unreachable regions? Perhaps. But he didn't say. He stood still, reviving only when his pilot's instincts took over. Then, ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne
... relieved. "Then she'd be in the way. Two women about always fights—and Keziah's got the Ferguson temper. She's afraid of me, but now and then she fergits and has a tantrum." Jeb looked at her with a smile and a frown. "Perk up a little," he more than half ordered. "I don't want Keziah ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips |
