"Put-up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... enough to run away with a young woman that helped in his mother's house, and marry her afore a justice of the peace. The old man just snorted with rage, and swore he'd have the marriage put aside, for the boy was under age. He said it was a put-up job of the girl's; that she was older by two years, and only wanted to get what money might be comin' some day, but that they'd never see a red cent of it. Then, they say, John Milton up and sassed the old man to his face, and allowed ...
— A First Family of Tasajara • Bret Harte
... tree regardin' them. They never peeped, so far as he's concerned. He never heard from them after they dusted that time. Of course, he thinks it was a put-up job, that gag of the Colonel's, payin' her all that money. He argues that it was all understood between 'em, and that it wasn't a squeeze on her part. The Colonel denied it, mighty strong, sayin' he had never heard from Mrs. Braddock until her lawyers and ...
— The Rose in the Ring • George Barr McCutcheon
... put-up job on a pore young man like me; And the jury was bribed a puppos, and aftdrst they couldn't agree. And I sed to the judge, sez I,—Oh, grin! it's all right my son! But you're a werry lively young pup, and you ain't ...
— East and West - Poems • Bret Harte
... cried, hoarsely, "it's all a put-up job to feed me because you suspect I'm hungry! No, you don't even ...
— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan
... no more o' this stuff!" he said. "It's an insult to us to put a fellow like that before us. We don't believe a word o' what he says. We don't believe he was within a mile o' them ruins on Sunday afternoon. It's all a put-up job!" ...
— Scarhaven Keep • J. S. Fletcher
... give him time in which to recover himself fully, she went on, speaking rapidly: "And, after all, it may only be a put-up job or a mistake. Half the women they pinch in them big stores ain't reg'lar thieves. They get tempted, or they can't find anybody to tell 'em the price o' things, especially these holiday times, and they carry 'em round ...
— Felix O'Day • F. Hopkinson Smith |
