"Pop the question" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Croquet Players will be held next month at Baden. They will not hold their debates in Latin. Among the points discussed will be, whether it is allowable to pop the question on the croquet ground. Old maids are quoted as thinking that it distracts the game. Younger ones would consider ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 8, May 21, 1870 • Various
... she modestly refuses, until she has had a decent time to order her widow's weeds at her milliner's and wear them for about a month or so, at the expiration of which interval Afrael may, if he be still of the same mind, call in again, and pop the question. ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 24, 1891. • Various |
