Do we say make it work or make it to

make it work 8 occurrences

With what delight we would make it work, to see what it would do!

You've a good philosophy of life if you can make it work.

A good philosophy, so John Wollaston with a touch of envy had admittedif you can make it work.

In the next place, I had no hops to make it keep, no yeast to make it work, no copper or kettle to make it boil; and yet, with all these things wanting, I verily believe, had not the frights and terrors I was in about the savages intervened, I had undertaken it, and perhaps brought it to pass too; for I seldom gave any thing over without accomplishing it, when once I had it in my head to begin it.

Why, I've had to grease the saw to make it work!'

Yes, sir, had to grease his saw to make it work through that bony old heifer.

One of my projects was to brew me some beer; a very whimsical one indeed, when it is considered that I had neither casks sufficient; nor could I make any to preserve it in; neither had I hops to make it keep, yest to make it work, nor a copper or kettle to make it boil.

She did so, but could not make it work very well; it had teeth, she said.

make it to 25 occurrences

They must make it to Cottonville running by gravity wherever they could; since she had no means of knowing that there was sufficient gasoline in the tank, and it would not do to be overtaken or waylaid.

Take a cod's head, wash and clean it, take out the gills, cut it open, and make it to lie flat; (if you have no conveniency of boiling it you may do it in an oven, and it will be as well or better) put it into a copper-dish or earthen one, lie upon it a littler butter, salt, and flour, and when it is enough take off the skin.

"I think the doctor would prefer to make his own announcement," she said, "and he will make it to the committee.

Why do you make it to me?" "As a warning.

" "Or because you don't dare make it to anyone else.

The coverings or roofs of their houses are constructed for the most part in the following manner: Having carried the wall to its full height, they make it to incline or bend in gradually till it form a regular vault.

"It's not likely even now," sly and twinkling Lander of the hotel told Dickie, "that you can make it to Miss Blake's place.

If there are nations that say they will only respect treaties when it is to their interest to do so, we must make it to their interest to do so for the future.

It will be especially nice if I make it to retirement age.

"Can you make it to the housewarming?" "I don't think so.

This is a pretty correct statement, and I make it to show you what can be done by industry and economy, with the blessing of Heaven.

I have already made it to my God, and to my family; it is now fitting and necessary that I make it to my partners.

Advance any proposition you please, and I will make it to be true."

Try if you can make it to be true, that light is darkness, and darkness light."

When ever I do something and I knew I was going to get a whipping I would make it to old Miss.

And once his voice was husky and strained when he said to Aldous: "I guess we'll make it to-morrow, Johnnyjus' about as the sun's going down.

I think it were well for this country to avail itself of the great abilities of Mirabeau and make it to his interest to be true to it."

"They offered her," as Joan herself said, when questioned upon this subject at a later period during her trial, "a woman's dress, or stuff to make it to her liking, and requested her to wear it; but she answered that she had not leave from our Lord, and that it was not yet time for it."

Make it to-morrow afternoon, judge.

A slight acquaintance with their studies, and a few visits to their assemblies, would inform him, that nothing is so worthless, but that prejudice and caprice can give it value; nor any thing of so little use, but that by indulging an idle competition or unreasonable pride, a man may make it to himself one of the necessaries of life.

And had you none to make it to but me? Lys.

Gray Leg could just make it to the cabin.

"I wish you to hear what I have got to say to you, and to make no answer till you shall make it to-morrow to him, after having fully considered the whole matter.

if thou intend'st me grace, Change that heavenly face of thine; Paint despised love in thy face, And make it to appear like mine. 5 Pale, wan, and meagre let it look, With a pity-moving shape, Such as wander by the brook Of Lethe, or from graves escape. 6 Then to that matchless nymph appear, In whose shape thou shinest so; Softly in her sleeping ear, With humble words, express my woe. 7

"If Monsieur has any complaint to make," she said, "he can make it to me.

Do we say   make it work   or  make it to