"Put through" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... them, because in a day or two it's Christmas I suppose. Jesus it is cold. Dirty snow. Huddling people. La guerre. Always la guerre. And chill. Goes through these big mittens. To-morrow I shall be on the ocean. Pretty neat the way that passport was put through. Rode all day in a taxi, two cylinders, running on one. Everywhere waiting lines. I stepped to the head and was attended to by the officials of the great and good French Government. Gad that's a good one. A good one on le gouvernement francais. ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings
... nevertheless it is true, that 90 per cent or more of the "raised" checks, notes, or other monetary instruments which were in their original condition written on ordinary or so-called safety paper, never could have been successfully "put through" but for the gross and at times criminal negligence of their writers by the failure to adopt precautions of the very simplest kinds, and thereby avoided placing temptation in the way of many who under other circumstances would never have thought ...
— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho
... them, but the boys hardly felt the same way about it. They had been planning to have "all sorts of fun with that young missionary," in their own house. He was, as Fuz expressed it, to be "put through a regular course of sprouts, and take the Hindu all out ...
— Dab Kinzer - A Story of a Growing Boy • William O. Stoddard
... with that intent look as if he were a slightly unsatisfactory colt being put through his paces ...
— Ride Proud, Rebel! • Andre Alice Norton
... is, very muddy, very hoarse, very ragged. Now, boy! But stop a minute. Caution. This boy must be put through ...
— Ten Boys from Dickens • Kate Dickinson Sweetser
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