"Jut" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... A price so heavy to ascend this eminence, And jut out high above the common herd, Only to close the mighty part I play In life's great drama with a common kinsman? Have I for this—— [Stops suddenly, repressing himself. She is the only thing That will remain ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... it was probably only by chance that they had such a map aboard. Even the best of the charts, are not absolutely correct, and this one may be entirely wrong. I shall rely more on keeping a careful watch tonight than on the map; you see this cape? For all I know it may jut out fifty miles east of where it appears to be and we might run into shoal water ...
— Wolves of the Sea • Randall Parrish
... el tans d'este, el mois de mai, que li jor sont caut, lonc, et cler, et les nuits coies et series. Nicolete jut une nuit en son lit, et vit la lune cler par une fenestre, et si oi le lorseilnol center en garding, se li sovint d'Aucassin sen ...
— Dante: His Times and His Work • Arthur John Butler
... explain the silk to unhook to project, jut the elbow to smoke so so or as well as one can sitting astride ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... Rembrandt were in the least intended to be comic. Their extravagance was not the extravagance of satire, but simply the extravagance of vitality; and here lies the whole key of the place of ugliness in aesthetics. We like to see a crag jut out in shameless decision from the cliff, we like to see the red pines stand up hardily upon a high cliff, we like to see a chasm cloven from end to end of a mountain. With equally noble enthusiasm we like to see a nose jut out decisively, ...
— The Defendant • G.K. Chesterton |
