"Play up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this priest, or Moolah, who is coming to us, a hint that we really are softening a bit upon the point. I don't think, considering the hole that we are in, that there can be very much objection to that. Then, when he comes, we might play up and take an interest and ask for more instruction, and in that way hold the matter over for a day or two. Don't you think that would be the ...
— A Desert Drama - Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" • A. Conan Doyle
... manager, lying in bed, read a new play. He read three or four pages and then in irritation threw the play on to the floor, put out the candle, and drew the bedclothes over him; a little later, after thinking over it, he took the play up again and began to read it; then, getting angry with the uninspired tedious work, he again threw it on the floor and put out the candle. A little later he once more took up the play and read it, then he produced it ...
— Note-Book of Anton Chekhov • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
... There was sadly little of the "angel child" about them. Their intuition was keen enough to penetrate their aunt's secret wishes and tastes, and they were occasionally tempted, for the spoils to be gotten out of it, to play up to that lady's ideals. But Aunt Anne was considered almost too easy by the Madigans, whom honor restricted to those foemen worthy of their steel. Frances was the only one who could, without losing caste, cater to her aunt's well-known and deeply ...
— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson
... bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote; "Play up! Play up! And ...
— It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration • Joseph Morris
... Play up, Knype! Now, lads! Give 'em hot hell!" Different voices heartily encouraged the home team as the ...
— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett
... H.M.T. "Arcadian." Blazing hot. Wrote all day. Had an hour and a half's talk with de Robeck—high politics as well as our own rather anxious affairs. No one knows how the new First Lord will play up, but Asquith, for sure, chucks away his mainspring if he parts with Winston: as to Fisher, he too has energy but none of it came our way so he will have no tears from us, though he has friends here too. The submarine scare is full on; the beastly things have frightened ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton
... Government's absolutely determined about this thing—they can't afford to be anything else. We're being hammered, and gassed, and blown to pieces over there'—he pointed eastward. 'It's the least the people over here can do—to play up—isn't it?' Then he laughed. 'But I mustn't be setting you against your father. ...
— Elizabeth's Campaign • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... me run," said Nan, and her voice was gloomy. "She won't want me to have the other girls in here to play up in the attic, and she doesn't believe in ...
— The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West • Laura Lee Hope
... scramble more quickly over the keys than one's competitors? Yet we have certainly met singers and players who gloried in such accomplishments. A performer may also know every device and trick of the trade, he may be well aware of what will go down with his audience, he may play up to all their little foibles and weaknesses and give them exactly what they want: we can indeed scarcely quarrel with this. But so many are apparently content to allow the matter to remain on this lowly level. A singer who is thus able to play upon his audience and hold ...
— Spirit and Music • H. Ernest Hunt
... According to Finsen, he wouldn't pit in the dark. However, it doesn't matter on a cowboy. You've a great story yourself. There's a fine situation here which I'll play up if ...
— Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger - A Romance of the Mountain West • Hamlin Garland
... fits over the bolt and keeps it in place. The notch in the guard must be long enough to give the bolt free play up and down. ...
— Shelters, Shacks and Shanties • D.C. Beard
... tube. If heated so that the flame be allowed to play up the tube upon the mineral, flourine is evolved, which corrodes the ...
— A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe • Anonymous
... all party divergences were sunk into oblivion, and the country provided the spectacle of a completely united nation. General Bobrikoff was too much of a tactician to be pleased with this state of affairs, and he began to play up to the Old-Finns, not without success. Among other things, he filled all public posts, vacated by their former occupants, who had either resigned on constitutional grounds or had ...
— Through Finland in Carts • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie
... quick home, there's my dear boy," my mother said; and Phyllis, who was lying on the sofa, looked up for a minute with, "Play up, Jim. Mind you ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various
... Editor.—Before beginning the story, the reporter should stop at the city editor's desk, give him in as few words as possible an account of what he has learned, and ask for instructions about handling the story, about any feature or features to play up. The city editor may not offer any advice at all, may simply say to write the story for what it is worth. In such a case, the reporter is at liberty to go ahead as he has planned; and he should have his copy on the city editor's ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... dinner in cold silence. Tighe kept the ball of conversation rolling and Beaudry tried to play up to him. They talked of stock, crops, and politics. Occasionally the host diverted the talk to outside topics. He asked the young man politely how he liked the park, whether he intended to stay long, how long he had lived in New Mexico, and other ...
— The Sheriff's Son • William MacLeod Raine |
