look-up

Updated: May 27, 2025

Solomon Appleyard, knocking the ashes from his pipe, arose. "Don't know any reason myself why we shouldn't see a little more of one another than we do," suggested Grindley senior, shaking hands. "Give us a look-up one Sunday afternoon," suggested Solomon. "Bring the youngster with you."

Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome - Tommy and Co.

The idea would be to call the first of the clubs, the club of inventors, the Look-Up Club. The second, a club of how-men and engineers, the Try-Out Club, and the third the operating club of the vast body of the people taking direct action and putting the thing through locally and nationally would be called The Put-Through Clan.

Gerald Stanley Lee - The Ghost in the White House : Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want

"It is called chainstitch, is it not?" said the aide-de-camp; "and Miss Stanley is working on so famously fast at it she will have us all in her chains by and by." "Bow, Miss Stanley," said Lady Cecilia; "that pretty compliment deserves at least a bow, if not a look-up." "I should prefer a look-down, if I were to choose," said Churchill. "Beggars must not be choosers," said the aide-de-camp.

Maria Edgeworth - Tales and Novels — Volume 10