"Jack up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... chief life saver. "Jack up that cable, boys; she's sagging. I guess the old ship is working farther in. Jack ...
— The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast • Victor Appleton
... easier than another it is the third, but none of them are by any means sinecures. When I was a copy operator I used to imagine it was an easy thing to sit over on the other side of the table and give orders, "jack up" operators, conductors and engineers, and incidentally haul some men over the coals every time I had to call them a few minutes; but when I reached the summit of an operator's ambition, and was assigned to a trick I found things very different. Copying with no responsibility was dead ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
... hearts and limbs of persons who had been lately killed; and he told Jack, with a horrid grin, that men's hearts, eaten with pepper and vinegar, were his nicest food; and also, that he thought he should make a dainty meal on his heart. When he had said this, he locked Jack up in that room, while he went to fetch another giant who lived in the same wood, to enjoy a dinner off Jack's flesh with him. While he was away, Jack heard dreadful shrieks, groans, and cries, from many parts ...
— Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know • Various
... tell you. I refused to give Jack up, for I did not like the looks of the man, and moreover Jack did not wish to go with him. I told him he would have to prove his claim ...
— Young Captain Jack - The Son of a Soldier • Horatio Alger and Arthur M. Winfield
... have an idea, he caught Jack up by the throat and knee, lifted him with gigantic strength above his head, and was just going to hurl him shrieking into the sea, when a dozen strong hands interfered, and saved the man. Then they were going to bind Billy hand and foot; but he was discovered ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade |
