liquor up
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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The paste is added to the previous mixture, and, after being well stirred in, sufficient water is added to make the total volume of liquor up to 100 gallons.
From The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics by Beech, Franklin
And then you drank the vapid liquor up, The mawkish brew beloved of young and old.
From Love's Comedy by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)
A constant flow of liquor is regulated through the washer, and the gas, in order to pass through the perforations, drives the liquor up into the troughs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
After the end of the time sufficient cold water is added to bring the volume of the liquor up to 10 gallons.
From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Beech, Franklin
So I judged that their anxiety and the turmoil of their hearts had not burned their liquor up, as had been the case with me.
From Red Axe by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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