"Put-up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seen and when. They spotted batteries, trains in stations back of the enemy lines, gave the hour precisely, reported any activity on the roads. In moments of exasperation Drew would say, "I think they are stringing us! This is all a put-up job!" Certainly this did appear to be the case at first. For we were air-blind. We saw little of the activity all around us, and details on the ground had no significance. How were we to take thought of time and place and altitude, note the peculiarities ...
— High Adventure - A Narrative of Air Fighting in France • James Norman Hall
... Mermaid was never alive at all! She was a put-up thing of waxwork and a stuffed salmo ferox. His pretended marriage with her is therefore a mere specious excuse to enable him to avoid ...
— Much Darker Days • Andrew Lang (AKA A. Huge Longway)
... a put-up job to me," growled the driver, as he confronted Balcom, holding the strait-jacket toward him. "And I believe you know something ...
— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey |
