"Gear up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hitched; O fool, De day's a-breakin' fas'; Gear up dat lean ole Baptis' mule, Dey's mightily in de grass, grass, ...
— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier
... have landed from my boat very tired, after a long cruise or fishing expedition, I have always found "Begum" waiting for me, ready to fetch "Eddy," at my word, to help to beach the boat and carry my gear up the cliff. This used to be of such frequent occurrence that upon the end of the boat's painter I worked a kind of collar for "Eddy" to pull upon in comfort. This collar I made of old sacking sewed over with sennet, and I must say it was quite a success, for he ...
— Jethou - or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles • E. R. Suffling
... to be yourn!" protested the proprietor of the stable as the sheriff helped him "gear up the ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various
... or, rather, Sidney Waltham, despite his fifty years, did what only a sailor could do. He went over the bridge-rail side-wise, caught the running gear up-and-down the mizzen-mast, and landed lightly on his feet on top of Number Three hatch. Nor did he stop there. He ran across the hatch and dived through the doorway of his room in ...
— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London |
