"Shake-up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... weeks later that a serious shake-up occurred in the office force, of which no one seemed to know the cause. There was a mad scramble for advancement all along the line, in which Kirk took no part. But unexpectedly Runnels summoned him ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... the show has got to have a railroad wreck every season, and all hands lay awake nights on the cars to brace themselves for the shock. Sometimes it comes early in the season, and again a show goes along until almost the end of the season without a shake-up, and fellows think maybe there is not going to be any wreck, but the engineers are only waiting till everybody has forgotten about it, and then, biff, bang, and they have run into another train, or been run into, and you have to be pulled out of a window ...
— Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus • George W. Peck
... away on the bluff has dried up. The damage to the mill and machinery will probably amount to several thousand dollars. The upheaval is supposed to have resulted from some hydraulic pressure between the seams of rock beneath. A panic occurred among the mill operatives at the time of the shake-up, but nobody was hurt in the stampede from the mill.—Boston Transcript, ...
— The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 • Various
... "There's been a shake-up in our combination," he remarked casually to Fyfe. "Monohan and dad have split over a question of business policy. Walter's taking over all our interests on Roaring Lake. He appears to be going to peel off his coat and become ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... Bud. Your thanks will be just what you make of this work when I leave. There has been a big shake-up in the Service. Some of us ...
— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert |
