Next day he sent for the senior officer, and after a short talk with him told him to smarten up his subaltern.
But you wait till we get alongside them blighted Boches, sir, an' see if I don't smarten some of 'em for this.
He looked at me with some astonishment as I entered, and I noticed as I returned his glance that he, too, had taken some pains to smarten himself up.
They all gazed at me with some curiosity, and faith, I daresay I was a pretty sight to behold, for I had had no time to smarten myself up for four days, and the mud of the ditch was thick on my clothes.
If you'd smarten yourself up a bit instead of looking like a ploughman, you might get a place there too.
It was early closing day, and he had been at pains to smarten himself up in his best; added to which he would at any time have deprecated personal criticism in the presence of Miss Popkiss.
People began to visit one another's tables and there was a blithe undercurrent of praise for my efforts to smarten the town's public dining.
Go and smarten yourself up for that young man of yourn, and let your old mother cook the supper.
You lend me a coil of wire, honey, and you'll see how I'll smarten 'em up.
She took it out of her box and looked at it: perhaps there was something she could do to smarten it up a little.
I smartenand dress you so fine every day--but to-day you ought to think of dressing me.
Now she might wear none but white dresses and the least scrap of colored ornament to dress her hair or smarten her robe was strictly forbidden.
