What is "mustered up"

Usage examples of "mustered up".

So have they mustered up a strength full double any e'er dispatched in times gone by, and this force we face with scarce four score ships.

The pain was coming mostly from the infected facial nervesthat and the damp cold- Having mustered up barely enough PK to boost his brother's impeded circulation, Kuhal now steeled himself to assume the pain again with his redactive faculty.

Among his company he had already mustered up five celebrated blues.

He understood perfectly what was in my mind, and waited with downcast eyes while I mustered up courage to ask a question his silence answered only too eloquently.

Dyana mustered up her courage and pushed the door open without knocking.

Wickfield's dinner-hour, I had mustered up my spirits again, and was ready for my knife and fork.

Could be, if things had looked right, I might have taken me a picket rail, a nice big bag o' feathers, an' mustered up some hot tar to boot.

She hefted it one-handed, then mustered up a smile and picked up a pair of rusty pliers and stepped back out of the trailer.