"Cutty" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Cutty Sark' (I'd say) 'or the old Thermopylae, Or The Star of Peace as I sailed in once in my young days at sea, Shipshape an' Blackwall fashion too, as a ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, February 11, 1920 • Various
... to be tough on the Whaleys, though. I didn't let on to Dennis, and after supper we sat on the back steps while he smoked his cutty and gassed away about the things he was goin' to raise, and how the flower-beds would look in a month or so. About nine o'clock he shows me a place where I can turn in, and I listens to the roosters crowin' most of ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... "The cropped black sow seize the hindmost!" The saying, as Sir John Rhys justly remarks, implies that originally one of the company became a victim in dead earnest. Down to the present time the saying is current in Carnarvonshire, where allusions to the cutty black sow are still occasionally made to frighten children. We can now understand why in Lower Brittany every person throws a pebble into the midsummer bonfire. Doubtless there, as in Wales and the Highlands of Scotland, omens of life and death have at one time or other been drawn from the ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer
... years. As for the letters at the post-mistress's, as they ca' her, down by yonder, they may bide in her shop-window, wi' the snaps and bawbee rows, till Beltane, or I loose them. I'll never file my fingers with them. Post-mistress, indeed!—Upsetting cutty! I mind her fu' weel when she dree'd penance ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott
... melodrama, they are jesting at each other's troubles, greeting each interval of darkness with mock shouts of misery and despair, likening the crags to various fogies of their acquaintance, male and female, and only pulling the cutty pipes out of their mouths to chant snatches of jovial songs. They are Wynd and Naylor, the two Cambridge boating-men, in bedrabbled flannel trousers, and shooting-jackets pocketful of water; who are both fully agreed, ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume II. • Charles Kingsley
... said John Scott, pulling meditatively at his cutty, "that the pooer is vested noo in a kind ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett |
