make matters up
Example Sentences
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It is better far to make matters up and keep out of court, for if you are caught there you are caught in the brambles, and won't get out without damage.
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by O. E. (Osgood Eaton) Fuller
I have sent Charles to town to make matters up if he can, for I do not by any means want her here.
From Lady Susan by Jane Austen
"I have ever been willing to make matters up," says Gunnar; "and, besides, ye have much wrong to follow up, but still I think I was hard driven to do as I did."
From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by George Webbe Dasent
You will have harder usage than any you have ever yet known, I can tell you, if you come not into some humour to make matters up.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson
All through those two years I had hugged the fond hope that sometime I might stumble across her in a mild mood and make matters up.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
