"Stay put" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... granted a "license," and the minister has put their hands together and prayed over them—after this, they both think they have a "cinch" on each other, that they are bound together by a bond that cannot be broken, a tie so strong that it will need no further looking after, but which will "stay put" of its own accord, and which may therefore be let to shift for itself from the hour of its pronouncement! Nothing could be further from the truth than this is. And yet it is a common feeling and belief ...
— Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living • H.W. Long
... white," came to the rescue, in the likeness of a big Prussian, who spoke no English, but divined the crisis, and put an end to it, by bundling the lively monoped into his bed, like a baby, with an authoritative command to "stay put," which received added weight from being delivered in an odd conglomeration of French and German, accompanied by warning wags of a head decorated with a yellow cotton night cap, rendered most imposing by a tassel like a bell-pull. Rather exhausted by his excursion, the member ...
— Hospital Sketches • Louisa May Alcott
... always happens," she reflected, pausing for a moment on the top step. "I hope the Anarchist will 'stay put' this time." She laughed softly at the idea of the Anarchist standing stiff and stationary in her new room. Then the ridiculous side of the encounter dawning on her, she sat down on the stairs and gave way ...
— Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... Nicolas," remarked Tom, protestingly, "why on earth didn't you stay put? We left you behind to-night so that you wouldn't run into ...
— The Young Engineers in Mexico • H. Irving Hancock
... that it is a woman's first duty to "stay put" when matrimonial exigencies have placed her in a specific "pocket" of the ...
— Sex=The Unknown Quantity - The Spiritual Function of Sex • Ali Nomad
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