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"Kick up" Quotes from Famous Books

... easy enough to plan. It sometimes happens, however, that in attempting to carry them out a hitch occurs which no one has dreamed possible. Now, it might come in the shape of sudden winds that kick up a tremendous sea; again, there might be a breakdown of the motor, as may happen with any boat, no ...

— The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf • Captain Quincy Allen

... philosophical subtleties of the higher Classics, was in itself devoid of glamour, but with what funereal pigments shall he describe his sinking emotions when one of his own band, approaching him as he went, whispered in his ear, "Look out at this end; they kick up like the very devil. And their man behind the wicket is really smart; if you give him half a chance he'll have your stumps down before you can say 'knife.'" Shorn of its uncouth familiarity, this was ...

— The Mirror of Kong Ho • Ernest Bramah

... curiously. He coaxes it forward by calling it all sorts of pet names—"doushka," darling, etc. Then he beats it with a toy whip, which must feel like a fly on its woolly coat, for all the little fat pony does is to kick up its heels and fly along like the wind, missing the other sledges by a hair's-breadth. It is ghostly to see the way they glide along without a sound, for the sledges ...

— As Seen By Me • Lilian Bell

... goin' to hurt you,—don't you tell!" called Frank, squirming until he dug his heels so into the horse's flanks that the horse began to kick up. ...

— Two Little Confederates • Thomas Nelson Page

... Sambo, to kick up this yer row between me and the new hands! The fellow won't be fit to work for a week, now,—right in ...

— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe

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