"Put over" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Landor was thrown to the ground and a cloth put over his head and face to prevent his seeing what was being done to his servant Mansing. This must have been done to make Mr. Landor believe that Mansing was being executed. After a short time the cloth was removed and Mr. Landor beheld his servant, with ...
— An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet • A. Henry Savage Landor
... 16th, 17th. Work, work, work. If I don't knock up, I shall be able to pay back the advance in another week; and then, with a little more pinching in my daily expenses, I may succeed in saving a shilling or two to get some turf to put over Mary's grave, and perhaps even a few flowers besides ...
— The Queen of Hearts • Wilkie Collins
... Dress pigeons, wash well, and roast for 30 minutes basting frequently. Some pieces of fat bacon put over the breasts will ...
— Every Step in Canning • Grace Viall Gray
... not whether there can be human compassion for anemia of the soul. When the pitch of Life is dropped, and the spirit is so put over and reversed that that only is horrible which before was sweet and worldly and of the day, the human relation disappears. The sane soul turns appalled away, lest not merely itself, but sanity should suffer. We are not gods. We cannot drive out devils. We must see ...
— Widdershins • Oliver Onions
... from her apathy. She rushed in ahead and fixed the pillows on the couch, and got a warm cover to put over him. ...
— Janice Day, The Young Homemaker • Helen Beecher Long
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