"Pay up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is to have your prices reg'lar, and make people pay up reg'lar. Ten dollars for eatin', jes' so; eleb'n for eatin' an' sleepin'; half a dollar for dinner, jes' so; quarter apiece for breakfast, supper, and bed, is what I call reason'ble bo'd. As for me, I sca'cely know how to rig'late, because, you know, I'm a' ...
— The Best American Humorous Short Stories • Various
... me. But, about lettin' him ride off without arrestin' him—they ain't nothin' doin'. I said I'd arrest him, an' I will—an' besides, I aim to hold him over a spell till I can find out if they ain't a reward out fer him. If they ain't nothin' on him what's he anxious to pay up an' ...
— Prairie Flowers • James B. Hendryx
... wait any longer," he said to himself. "I must compel the boy to pay up. It will liquidate my hotel bill and leave me something over. I can't let the thing stand ...
— The Tin Box - and What it Contained • Horatio Alger
... interrupted him. "You go in an' pay up what you owe fer the Banner an' I'll wait here ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... our little patch O' parrock, rathe or leaete, John, We little ho'd how vur mid stratch The squier's wide esteaete, John. Our hearts, so honest an' so true, Had little vor to fear; Vor we could pay up all their due An' gi'e a friend good cheer At hwome, below The lofty row O' trees a-swayen ...
— Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect • William Barnes
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