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"Perked up" Quotes from Famous Books

... of five when we rolled into the city limits of Washington and I'll tell the world we was a rough lookin' bunch. Alex is grinnin' from ear to ear and slappin' Wilkinson on the back and this guy has perked up a bit, though wishin' out loud that he was home with coffee, bacon and eggs and Mrs. Wilkinson. I am cursin' the day that ever brung Alex into our family circle and wonderin' if death by double pneumonia is painful. The mechanic is fallin' asleep at the ...

— Alex the Great • H. C. Witwer

... challenge the trainer perked up and insisted upon having that particular bad animal; so we yielded. He wished him for the special business of turning somersaults, because he had no tail to interfere with ...

— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday

... to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content. Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. King Henry VIII., Act ii. ...

— The World's Best Poetry — Volume 10 • Various

... in rejuvenating sunlight, looked more attractive. A few poor flowers in rare window-boxes perked up their heads. The puddles in the road were draining off into rocky crannies, and the very air seemed to have been washed of some of ...

— Sweetapple Cove • George van Schaick

... mon cher, an attorney in a plum-coloured spencer! Who, in these enlightened days, would trust his business to such a practitioner? I perked up considerably, believing that my aged imbecile was going to be of ...

— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

Words linked to "Perked up" : enlivened