"Tut-tut" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the appointed hour, however, there came a knock on the tutor's door, and that gentleman, who had sent his servant out of the way, found Mr. Fishwick on the landing. 'Tut-tut!' said the don with some brusqueness, his hand still on the door; 'do you want me?' He had seen the attorney after the duel, and in the confusion attendant on the injured man's removal; and knew him by sight, ...
— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman
... Laperouse poured out his forbidding warnings in a long letter. Listen to the "tut-tut" of the old ...
— Laperouse • Ernest Scott
... CURATE. Tut-tut, dear lad, that is not the way to speak of our mentors and preceptors. So refined and intelligent a lady as Miss Pinniger. Indeed I came here to see her this morning on a little matter of embroidered vestments. ...
— Second Plays • A. A. Milne
... lack of scruple suddenly revealed in the life of the elder generation. Unconsciously imitating a trick of his father's when annoyed but calm, he nodded his head several times, and with his tongue against his teeth made the noise which in writing is represented by 'tut-tut.' Yet somehow he had always known that it would be so. At bottom, he was only pretending to himself to ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... two were so close that Tom could plainly see the black Maltese crosses on the wings of the Teuton plane as it tilted in climbing. Already had the other opened fire on him, for as his motor was silent during his first long dive Tom could catch the tut-tut-tut of the rapidly ...
— Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines - The German Spy's Secret • Charles Amory Beach |
