"Pick-me-up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... scrubby and battered appearance silenced him. The barber's explanation was as good as any, seeing that he himself could give no satisfactory account of the circumstances which had reduced him to his sorry pass. So Desmond held his peace though he felt constrained to reject the barber's offer of a pick-me-up. ...
— Okewood of the Secret Service • Valentine Williams
... joyance but generous youth * When the pretty ones deign with him company keep: This sings to him, sings to him that, when he wants * A pick-me-up[FN97] lying there all of a heap: And when of a loveling he needeth a kiss, * He takes from his lips or a draught or a nip; Heaven bless them! How sweetly my day with them sped; * A wonderful harvest of pleasure I reap: Let us drink our good liquor both watered ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... them herself) of which Ruth did not catch the burden for some days. When Mercy was singing it she mumbled the words, or dropped her voice to a whisper whenever anybody came near. But one morning Ruth was bringing the beaten egg and milk that she drank as a "pick-me-up" between breakfast and dinner, and Mercy did not hear her coming, and the odd little song came clearly to the ears of the girl of ...
— Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill • Alice B. Emerson
... electrical pick-me-up saying that the height of the Queen Elizabeth fire control station had enabled me to see the lie of the land better than on my previous reconnaissance, and that, given good luck, we hope to get ashore without too ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton
... me! You ask him if he'll let me go, and you'll see. I sent him out this morning pretty tidy to parade, quite early—and don't he like you to dress him—and when he come back, looking done-up, I was ready for him with a pick-me-up. You see there's a lot of him, and he ...
— The Queen's Scarlet - The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne • George Manville Fenn |
