fall-to

“Come, fall-to, Nanon!” he would say in years when the branches bent under the fruit and the farmers were obliged to give it to the pigs.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

Just a few days after Mr. Blair's compass sent him out the front door of The Times, which was on May 1, he returned a call from Mr. Vigliano-whom he'd met while shopping a book on the Washington, D.C., sniper case last fall-to talk about a book deal.

The Blair Pitch Project 2003

"I'll go every day that I possibly can," Beth answered, smiling brightly as she saw him fall-to contentedly with the appetite of a thriving convalescent.

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

After the admiral, captain, and officers had made the round of the decks, preceded by the band playing the immortal strains of "The roast beef of Old England," the shrill whistles piped "fall-to."

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

The place is intolerable in itself, but fall-to upon the steaming block of baked veal which is set before you; clear your throat of the tobacco-smoke by mighty draughts of the pale yellow wine which is its proper accompaniment; finally, fill a deep-bowled meerschaum with Three Kings tobacco, creating for yourself your own private and exclusive atmosphere, and you begin to feel the situation.

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

"Come Jacques," I said, "sit down and fall-to; the ride to-day must have put an edge on your appetite!" for we had eaten nothing since the early morning.

For The Admiral W.J. Marx

"I'll have to fall-to unless you give the word, Billie; I'm famished."

The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp Katherine Stokes

"I will tell you so much as this, madam -- that what I am like to die of now is hunger, plain, unvarnished hunger, so, in Heaven's name, get out what you have and let me fall-to, for my last meal was yesterday morning."

Gulliver of Mars 1905

She let the curtains fall-to behind her, and, stepping down the hillside, welcomed my father with the gravest of curtsies.

Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"I will tell you so much as this, madam -- that what I am like to die of now is hunger, plain, unvarnished hunger, so, in Heaven's name, get out what you have and let me fall-to, for my last meal was yesterday morning."

Gulliver of Mars Edwin Lester Linden Arnold 1896