"Prop" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cried. "You may flout our beliefs,—but wouldn't you like to bolster up your report with an endorsement by the wife of a clergyman! It sounds so respectable and sane, doesn't it? No, sir! You can't prop up your wild-eyed theories against the good black of one minister's coat. Not by any means! I think myself that you have probably stumbled on the truth about Willem's mother; but that doesn't prove ...
— The Return of Peter Grimm - Novelised From the Play • David Belasco
... in the shoes to protect them from treading on anything sharp, and our stockings were the dryest articles we had. We bound up our breeches as high as we could. "Now," said I, "let each one of us take a good stick in his hand in order to prop himself up against the current, and prevent his being washed away." Our guide went ahead even before I had found a stick; but when he reached the middle of the creek, he cried out, "Help, help, if you do not help me, ...
— Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 • Jasper Danckaerts
... other end of the wire, where, in the nature of things, she was unable to arrest it. The gaze she fixed on her extravagant kinsman was of a kind to make him wonder how he contrived to remain, as he beautifully did, rigid. His prop was possibly the reflection that flashed on him that, if she abounded in attenuations, well, hang it all, so did he! It was simply a difference of plane. Readjust the "values," as painters ...
— A Christmas Garland • Max Beerbohm
... foolish thoughts fill thy swelled mind! It is too late our ruin to recall; Those, that have once great buildings undermined, Will prove too weak to prop them in their fall. ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. II • Edited by Walter Scott
... the cart might have been a prop to take up as soon as he came out. On the other hand, what could she in her technical ignorance ...
— The Junkmakers • Albert R. Teichner
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