stringing up

Peterkins was surprised to see the strange little figures in white nighties come stringing up the path to the dog house.

They spent a few minutes looking over the old workings, and then they came stringing up his trail.

I'm in favour of stringing up a few of 'em by way of example to the rest.

As we went across the lawn, Sir Herbert was stringing up the tennis net, and two of the maids were standing talking to him.

He had plenty of disagreeable jobs to do without stringing up bad men for Uncle Sam; such was the attitude the warden took.