"Putter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sitting under the big maple tree on the lawn. I had an iron putter and was digging ...
— The New Boy at Hilltop • Ralph Henry Barbour
... FALSTAFF. 'Seese' and 'putter'! Have I lived to stand at the taunt of one that makes fritters of English? This is enough to be the decay of lust and late-walking ...
— The Merry Wives of Windsor • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... takes them up the hills, white magic restrains them down, and the sense of humor is in the Irish conductors. You may hear, if you listen, the magic coming out of the ground, "Kibble-kable, kibble-kable," only fast as anything. At noon time it goes "Putter, putter, putter," and at ...
— Vignettes of San Francisco • Almira Bailey
... ease, and that the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom." A man with an obliging, agreeable address may be just as sincere as if he had the noble art of treading on everybody's toes. The "putter-down-upon-system" man is quite as often urged by love of display as by a love of truth; he is ungenerous, combative, and ungenial; he is ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
... is," he said, laughing and looking at me. "Were you the mighty stone putter they make such ...
— Havelok The Dane - A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln • Charles Whistler
... explicable the things as we know them?" The 'beginning' of things (for it was thus he described this assumed identity) was not conceived by him as something which was long ages before, and which had ceased to be; rather it meant the reality of things now. Thales then was the putter of a question, which had not been asked expressly before, but which has never ceased to be asked since. He was also the formulator of a new meaning for a word; the word 'beginning' ((Greek) arche) got the meaning of ...
— A Short History of Greek Philosophy • John Marshall
... city boasts an old and learned college, Where you'd think the leading industry was Greek; Even there the favoured instruments of knowledge Are a driver and a putter and a cleek. ...
— The Scarlet Gown - being verses by a St. Andrews Man • R. F. Murray
... hard for all they got, ran far more than the usual risks of war, and were cheated by most of the traders ashore. As for the risks: when Shakespeare speaks of a "Putter-out of five for one" he means that what we now call insurance agents would bet five to one against the chance of a ship's ever coming back when she was going on a long voyage through distant seas full of known and unknown dangers, such as pirates, ...
— Flag and Fleet - How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas • William Wood
... laid out on dark blue denim. The "holes" were marked out with rings of white paint, and there were a few hazards of sandbags and a very low brick wall. For the most part it was a putting game, a putter being handed to the player after he had paid his admission to the ...
— School, Church, and Home Games • George O. Draper
... elsewhere. He was wondering suddenly about Cayley. Cayley was just an ordinary man—like himself. Bill had had little jokes with him sometimes; not that Cayley was much of a hand at joking. Bill had helped him to sausages, played tennis with him, borrowed his tobacco, lent him a putter.... and here was Antony saying that he was what? Well, not an ordinary man, anyway. A man with a secret. Perhaps a murderer. No, not a murderer; not Cayley. That was rot, anyway. Why, they had played ...
— The Red House Mystery • A. A. Milne
... the hall the next morning after a late breakfast that Clovis had his final inspiration as he stood engaged in coaxing rust spots from an old putter. ...
— Beasts and Super-Beasts • Saki
... not do? He might get his handicap down to six—to three—to scratch—to plus something! Good heavens, why, even the Amateur Championship was not outside the range of possibility. Mortimer Sturgis shook his putter solemnly in the air, and vowed a silent vow that he would win this pearl ...
— The Clicking of Cuthbert • P. G. Wodehouse |
