"Liven up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you better when you've been drinking," he went on. "You're sad when you're sober. As you drink you liven up." ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... brighten up at first. You see, he was sort of pensioned off by mother and she kept him pretty well inside his income.... Well, he seemed to sort of brighten up—liven up—when he found out that ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson
... too, was a precious clever fellow. He knew something of chemistry—and of most other subjects, including, as I gathered, the human character. For he talked to Charles about various ideas of his, with which he wished to "liven up folks in Kentucky a bit," on his return, till Charles conceived the highest possible regard for his intelligence and enterprise. "That's a go-ahead fellow, Sey!" he remarked to me one day. "Has the right sort of grit in him! Those Americans are the men. ...
— An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay • Grant Allen |
