"Slap-up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bill-boards hangin about your mouth, savin as how "Rooms was to let in your sky-lofts;" but contrary wise, it's my opinion there haint a tenement house in New York which is packed fuller of people than your figger-head is of slap-up idees. You haint afeard to stand out baldly and face the sea of upturned red maskaline noses, or hily-frizzled, gorgeously-got-up femilines, and skatter Fiseology rite and left, not carin a pickaune ...
— Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 35, November 26, 1870 • Various
... you. It is not every one by a long chalk that can find some one to keep them, and kept I am, and in slap-up ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac
... Tufton, "let me see what a nice respectable coffin, with brass handles and lots of slap-up brass nails and a brass plate, you can get ready ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke |
