"Step up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a light, and in a sweet trance to forget ourselves and all the passing phenomena of the day, as we forget the phantoms of a fleeting dream; to form, as in a dream, new connections with God's world; to enter into a more exalted sphere, and to make a new step up man's ...
— Pearls of Thought • Maturin M. Ballou
... but there's a sort of dignity," said Beatrice very distinctly, regarding the hall with serene tranquillity, and allowing the unwilling feet on the stairs to widen their distance from us. She stood a step up, so that she looked down a little upon me and over me at the ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... room beyond ours is just the place for a child. But go on, Larry, we'll think of a way. We've got to! It shan't ever be said that Kate Donovan turned away her only sister's only child. Do you mind when Mary married Sam Crocker? It was thought to be a big step up for the daughter of an Irish carpenter to marry a Crocker, the son of ol' Judge Crocker an' a lawyer himself. Seems if there never was a prettier girl than Mary an' she was happy till she died. An' now Sam's dead, too. He wasn't the man his father was. He couldn't ...
— Mary Rose of Mifflin • Frances R. Sterrett
... he turned to the men at the tables. "Step up, boys," he called. "I sets it up dis time to drink der health of der ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford
... said, "you keep on steady and wait a bit. You'll be seeing her looking downhearted soon, you mark my word, and then you can step up and say, 'Is't me you want, my girl?' You're a right down good fellow, Tom, and she don't know yet what ...
— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh
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