Her usual appearance was like a curtain which she could draw up at request for a capital performance.This performance was simply suggestive; but it was a word to the wise -- it was vivid and pretty.…Cited from The Real Thing, by Henry James
"Do you know an official who could draw up a document for the transfer of the estate?"Cited from The Precipice, by Ivan Goncharov
I think I could draw up a programme.Cited from Ginx's Baby, A Satire, by Edward Jenkins?
After I had drawn Mrs. Monarch a dozen times I felt surer even than before that the value of such a model as Miss Churm resided precisely in the fact that she had no positive stamp, combined of course with the other fact that what she did have was a curious and inexplicable talent for imitation.Her usual appearance was like a curtain which -- she could draw up at request for a capital performance.This performance was simply suggestive; but it was a word to the wise -- it was vivid and pretty.…Cited from Some Short Stories, by Henry James
The princess, seeing that we were at some little distance from the table, told us that we could draw up close to it.Cited from A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times, V.5 of 6, by Guizot
It seems more in consonance with the Celtic character; besides, the Irish are music-lovers.If one could draw up the list of critical and creative men in art the scale would not tip evenly.The number of painters who have written of their art is not large, though what they have said is always pregnant.…Cited from Promenades of an Impressionist, by James Huneker
His heart sank into a draw-well of misery, out of which the rope of thinking could draw up nothing but suicide.But as often as the bucket rose thus laden, Richard cast its content from him.…Cited from There & Back, by George MacDonald
Henry VIII., we may be sure, would never have allowed these solemn words to be used by people with something to sell, or by scientific disease-mongers.They were great people who could draw up their statutes in splendid passages of sustained nobility.Let us, Antony, salute them across the centuries.…Cited from The Glory of English Prose, by Stephen Coleridge
You have been detained for a debt you do not owe.The action is dismissed; and you will only be so good as to give me your hand into the coach, which stands as near to this house as it could draw up.And I will either leave you at the coach-door, or attend you whithersoever you please, till I see you safe where you would wish to be.…Cited from Clarissa, Volume 7, by Samuel Richardson
The ability and nice adaptation with which he could draw up a prefatory address, was one of his peculiar excellencies.It appears too, that he paid a friendly attention to Mrs. Elizabeth Carter; for in a letter from Mr. Cave to Dr. Birch, November 28, this year, I find 'Mr.…Cited from Life Of Johnson, V1, by Boswell, ed. Birkbeck Hill
The passengers were mostly people who belonged in the Provinces and had the listless provincial air, with a Boston commercial traveler or two, and a few gentlemen from the republic of Ireland, dressed in their uncomfortable Sunday clothes.If any accident should happen to the boat, it was doubtful if there were persons on board who could draw up and pass the proper resolutions of thanks to the officers.I heard one of these Irish gentlemen, whose satin vest was insufficient to repress the mountainous protuberance of his shirt-bosom, enlightening an admiring friend as to his idiosyncrasies.…Cited from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner V1
Strictly methodical in all his habits, Benjamin had telegraphed to his housekeeper, from Edinburgh, to have supper ready or us by ten o'clock, and to send the cabman whom he always employed to meet us at the station.Arriving at the villa, we were obliged to wait for a moment to let a pony-chaise get by us before we could draw up at Benjamin's door.The chaise passed very slowly, driven by a rough-looking man, with a pipe in his mouth.…Cited from The Law and the Lady, by Wilkie Collins
His Briefs had been greatly admired by the Supreme Court.Also it was known that he could draw up a copper-riveted Contract that would hold Water, but as a Pleader he was a Pickerel.At one time he had an Important Suit on hand, and he was Worried, for he was opposed by a couple of living Gas Engines who could rare up and down in front of a yap Jury for further Orders.…Cited from People You Know, by George Ade
The law might indeed give a person power to transfer a legal title to property in any way that suited the lawmakers, but the meritorious right to the property, resting as it did on personal desert, could not in the nature of moral things be transferred or ascribed to any one else.The cleverest lawyer would never have pretended that he could draw up a document that would carry over the smallest tittle of merit from one person to another, however close the tie of blood.…Cited from Equality, by Edward Bellamy
This acclamation, bandied from one army to the other before they joined, served to rouse and heighten their fury, while the men on either side strove, with all possible vehemence, the one to overshout the other.The river disordered the Ambrones; before they could draw up all their army on the other side of it, the Ligurians presently fell upon the van, and began to charge them hand to hand.The Romans, too, coming to their assistance, and from the higher ground pouring upon the enemy, forcibly repelled them, and the most of them (one thrusting another into the river) were there slain, and filled it with their blood and dead bodies.…Cited from Plutarch's Lives, A. H. Clough,
