liquor up

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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

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)

Rip is just the sort of fellow to have some sort of adventure, and we are not at all astonished when we find him helping the dwarf carry his keg of liquor up the mountain.

From Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans by Cody, Sherwin

Nor fear that I, my gentle maid, Shall long detain the cup, When once unto the bottom I Have drunk the liquor up.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various

A French poet of the eighteenth century produced the following: Lines on Coffee Translation from the French Good coffee is more than a savory cup, Its aroma has power to dry liquor up.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)