"Throw up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... would neutralize this tendency and bring them closer in unison. Had she, indeed, made such a sad mistake in her feelings as to give him only an enthusiastic but temporary affection, when she was ready to throw up all the beliefs and the training of her youth? But then the convent round looked ...
— A Little Girl in Old Detroit • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... salaries are fixed, but the value of these privileges to the staff is frequently over-estimated by the outsider. For instance, security of tenure and the prospect of a pension at retirement, often act as a deterrent to clever and enterprising officers who, but for the sacrifice involved, would throw up their appointment and seek more remunerative and promising employment outside. Again, the medical attendance provided by the Post Office is, in the case of the women employed in the Headquarters Departments, only available in practice when they are well ...
— Women Workers in Seven Professions • Edith J. Morley
... "Throw up your hands, I told you!" he said, while the hills opposite were still flinging back the sound of the shot, ...
— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower
... Pecksniff after a pause, during which he seemed to have been casting about for a new moral, and not quite successfully, 'which is also very soothing. Mercy, my dear, stir the fire and throw up ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens
... you didn't throw up your confounded benevolence so often, I might show more gratitude," ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
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