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"Nub" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is in small quarto, and exclusive of the title (which, indeed, is the nub of the achievement) contains only nine pages, breaking off abruptly in the middle of a sentence. He criticises the editors of Hariot's Algebra, the executors Aylesbury and Protheroe, aided by Warner, who were all eminent ...
— Thomas Hariot • Henry Stevens
... describing the supply of drinking-water introduced into the desert between Kuban and the Red Sea. Chabas[EN41] has published a coloured facsimile of this map: the gold-containing mountains are tinted red, and the words "Tu en nub" (Mons aureus) are written ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... higher. Carefully I turned about and faced the wall, hugging it as closely as possible. Holding the camera at arm's length, and pointing it straight up, I sprung the shutter. The click, slight as it was, startled the lamb. He leaped several feet to another nub of rock, teetered precariously several seconds, then suddenly his pedestal broke off. Sheep and rock dropped straight toward me. To avoid the rock, I sprang sideways. The sheep plunged down upon me as the ...
— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills
... got so she wasn't afraid of anything, she had such confidence in the ignorance of those creatures. She even brought anecdotes that she had heard the family and the dinner-guests laugh and shout over; and as a rule she got the nub of one chestnut hitched onto another chestnut, where, of course, it didn't fit and hadn't any point; and when she delivered the nub she fell over and rolled on the floor and laughed and barked in the most insane way, while ...
— The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories • Mark Twain
... one of them on this ranch five years ago, and I'll tell you about it, so that you can see the nub of this whole question. I didn't pan out particularly well those days—drank more whisky than was prescribed for me and didn't seem to care for my duty as a patriotic American citizen; so I took that pagan in, as a kind of cook. But when I got religion over at the Hill and they ...
— Can Such Things Be? • Ambrose Bierce |
Words linked to "Nub" : protrusion, core, hypostasis, piece, marrow, extrusion, nubby, center, bulge, centre, bump, swelling, stub, substance, jut, stuff, nubbin, nitty-gritty, gibbosity, kernel, heart, bare bones, part, sum, protuberance, haecceity, meat, inwardness, gibbousness, prominence, pith, content, excrescence, quintessence, hump, essence, quiddity, cognitive content, nubble, mental object, gist |
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