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"I'm pretty glad our camp-fare is decent to-night, Joe, for we've a visitor here; a hungry bird who has strayed from his own camp, and has wandered through the forest until he looks like a death's head. But we'll soon fix him up; won't we, Joe? Give him a mug of hot tea right away. Hot tea is worth a dozen of any other drink in the woods for a pick-me-up."
What have you been doing to yourself, Mr. Elkin? You look peeky to-day." "Too much whiskey and tobacco. I'll call at Siddle's for a 'pick-me-up. Am I wanted for the jury?" "Yes. I left a notice at your place last evening." "I didn't get it." "Been away?" "No. Fact is, I went home late, and didn't bother about letters this morning. What time is the inquest?"
But there was no softening of Newman's heart, to judge from his face; the little mirthless smile had vanished and his features were hard and set. Aye, and his manner towards me was curt enough. "Thank you; he needs a pick-me-up," he said, as he took the bottle. "And now you'll excuse us, lad." It wasn't a question, that last; it was a statement. Little he cared if I excused him or not.
As a result of a long conference, Professor Thunder went out that evening and cultivated the acquaintance of John Lidlow, J.P. John Lidlow, Esq., J.P., was the local butcher, and Professor Thunder found him a very companionable man with an amiable weakness for raw whiskey. Affectionately they made a night of it, and in the morning they had a mutual pick-me-up.
I saw myself ridiculed all over the Continent, and perhaps dismissed, even suspected of having taken the thing myself. "I was walking in front of a lighted cafe, and I felt so sick and miserable that I stopped for a pick-me-up. Then I considered that if I took one drink I would probably, in my present state of mind, not want to stop under twenty, and I decided I had better leave it alone.
You're gray in the face.... And the way you're perspiring...." Inspector Vérot wiped his forehead and, pulling himself together, said: "It's just a little tiredness.... I've been overworking myself lately: I was very keen on clearing up a case which Monsieur Desmalions had put in my hands. All the same, I have a funny sort of feeling " "Will you have a pick-me-up?" "No, no; I'm more thirsty."
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, Valentinian, III. 1. The KAISER to Mr. Monday, August 13th. In a certain political club there used, before the War, to be a popular pick-me-up compounded of a little whisky, a little Angostura and a good deal of soda-water, and known after its inventor as "a Henderson." In one respect the speech explaining his resignation which the right hon.
The worst of it was that Dennison wasn't very well, and was having a pick-me-up with his brekker. He wasn't in bed until four this morning, so it's no wonder he didn't look very fit." On the following afternoon Dennison left Oxford; he was not sent down by the dons, but had to go for the simple reason that his father said he would not let him stay any longer.
She smoothed the smock, patted the hat, passed a gloved hand over her nose. "You're all there," Paliser, amused by the mimic, was telling her. "What is more, one pick-me-up deserves another." With his stick, he poked at the mechanician, gestured with it, indicating a harbour.
What I needed was a pick-me-up, a bracer. Trust John Barleycorn, once he has broken down a man's defences! So it was a drink before breakfast to put me right for breakfast the old poison of the snake that has bitten one! Another custom begun at this time was that of the pitcher of water by the bedside to furnish relief to my scorched and sizzling membranes.
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