"Rutty" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... made its way up a rutty, corkscrew lane. They reached the house, and the door opened, and a tall, unpleasant-looking woman ...
— The Young Railroaders - Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity • Francis Lovell Coombs
... its rutty, irritating surface, seemed endless. We had started late, according to our promise, and having lost more than an hour on the "short cut," grey wings of twilight began at last to fold in the landscape. It was long since we had passed a village; Manzanares was not ...
— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... seem, it cannot be wondered at. A single muddy road runs through Fuzby. Except along this road—muddy and rutty in winter, dusty and rutty in summer—no walk is to be had. The fields are all more or less impassable with ditches and bogs. Kenrick had christened it "The Dreary Swamp." Nothing in the shape of a view is to be found anywhere, ...
— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar
... cart on a loose stony road awoke me; and I found that we were mounting a steep hill, where the road was a rutty by- road through a field. And so, by fragments of an ancient terrace, and by some rugged outbuildings that had once been fortified, and passing under a ruined gateway we came to the old farm-house in the thick stone wall outside the old quadrangle of Hoghton Towers: ...
— George Silverman's Explanation • Charles Dickens
... their patience with the unforeseen checks and cross-purposes and mistakes that they will have to put up with on leaving school. As a matter of fact the more perfect the school machinery, the smoother its working, the less does it prepare for the rutty road afterwards, and in this there is some consolation when school machinery jars from time to time in the working; if it teaches patience it is not altogether regrettable, and the little trouble which may arise in the material order is perhaps ...
— The Education of Catholic Girls • Janet Erskine Stuart |
