"Pick-me-up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... myself,' he explained to Mike. 'For Comrade Bickersdyke. He is about to sustain a nasty shock, and may need a restorative at a moment's notice. For all we know, his heart may not be strong. In any case, it is safest to have a pick-me-up handy.' ...
— Psmith in the City • P. G. Wodehouse
... request was refused, and his wife coldly shook hands with him, and retired to her room to superintend her maid's packing. Oswald believed her story, and, finding that he could eat no breakfast, put on his top coat and crawled to the Turf and Jockey for a "pick-me-up." Fortified by this, he made up his mind that, since his "system" had failed because he had had always too small a capital to work with, he would allow his allowance to roll up at the bank for three weeks ...
— The King's Men - A Tale of To-morrow • Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, J. S. Dale, and John T.
... Warburton gravely. "My latest tipple is oil of vitriol with a dash of strychnine. Splendid pick-me-up." ...
— Will Warburton • George Gissing
... joyance but generous youth * When the pretty ones deign with him company keep: This sings to him, sings to him that, when he wants * A pick-me-up[FN97] lying there all of a heap: And when of a loveling he needeth a kiss, * He takes from his lips or a draught or a nip; Heaven bless them! How sweetly my day with them sped; * A wonderful harvest of pleasure I reap: Let us drink our good liquor both watered ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... scrubby and battered appearance silenced him. The barber's explanation was as good as any, seeing that he himself could give no satisfactory account of the circumstances which had reduced him to his sorry pass. So Desmond held his peace though he felt constrained to reject the barber's offer of a pick-me-up. ...
— Okewood of the Secret Service • Valentine Williams |
