make matters up

Example Sentences

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I say, mother, you’d better make matters up with Daisy and bring her home, for I think I shall marry her after all.”

From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville

"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 Dasent, George Webbe

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 Austen, Jane

"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: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor by Unknown

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 Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)