"Fire up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it never bursts. It might burst, I grant you, if you screwed the fire up too high, but you're not obliged to ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors • Various
... the brands together which had burnt out, and built the fire up on the strictest principles, though no fire was wanted at present; the day had mellowed into warmth. Perhaps Faith recollected that after she had got through, for she left the fire to take care of itself and sat down again on the doorstep looking towards the nut-tree field. ...
— Say and Seal, Volume I • Susan Warner
... upwards, it would have been practically impossible, owing to the section of the slopes of the French position, to carry out the old-fashioned case-shot attack at all. Nowadays there would be no difficulty in turning on the fire of two thousand guns on any point of the position, and switching this fire up and down the line like water from a fire-engine hose, if the occasion ...
— On War • Carl von Clausewitz
... you to stay and keep the fire up—if you don't mind my makin' so free as to advise—in case 'e's 'arf-froze when 'e gets back, as is likely. But I'd better 'urry, 'specially if...." Doggott's color faded a little and his mouth tightened. "But I 'ope ...
— The Bronze Bell • Louis Joseph Vance
... take it by turns," Dave said, "to keep the fire up, and go on baking. We will make a dozen loaves ...
— The Golden Canyon - Contents: The Golden Canyon; The Stone Chest • G. A. Henty
... seen as much as I could now, I away to White Hall by appointment, and there walked to St. James's Parks, and there met my wife and Creed and Wood and his wife, and walked to my boat; and there upon the water again, and to the fire up and down, it still encreasing, and the wind great. So near the fire as we could for smoke; and all over the Thames, with one's face in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of firedrops. This is very true; so as houses were burned by these ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... urged the mother. "I'll make the fire up nice and warm in a little while, and then you shall have ...
— Lizzy Glenn - or, The Trials of a Seamstress • T. S. Arthur |
