"Hard up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they will buy.' She moved a little under his look, but when he said, 'I'm hard up,' ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... wrought, And these sad hands have right to tell their story, It was no hard up striving after glory, Catching and losing, gaining and failing, Raging me back at the world's raucous railing. Simply and humbly from stone and from wood, Wrought I the things that to ...
— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... Lou, there isn't a foreign nobleman, from the Emperor down, who is above grabbing a few million dollars. They're all hard up, and what do they gain by marrying ladies of noble birth if said ladies are the daughters of noblemen who are as hard up as all the rest of 'em? Besides, hasn't Maud been presented at Court? Didn't ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... owe you too much already, old man. Besides I had a sort of superstition that this temporary starvation—that's what it was, and it hurt— would bring me luck later. It's over and done with now, and none of the syndicate know how hard up I was. Fire away. What's the exact state of affairs ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... HARD UP. The tiller so placed as to carry the rudder close over to leeward of the stern-post. Also, used figuratively for being in great distress, or poverty-struck; obliged to bear up for ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
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