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"Cut across" Quotes from Famous Books

... Buckheath," insisted Lydia anxiously. "Tell him, just as you have told me, how long you and John have been engaged, and how devoted she was to you before she came down to the mill. You appeal to him that way. You can overtake him—I mean you can intercept him—if you start right on now—cut across the turn, and go ...

— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke

... district," the boy continued, "and I knew this was a short cut across the fields; but I didn't know ...

— The Boy With the U.S. Census • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... Middle Butte, that loomed like a purple island on their left, they took a short cut across the big Ox Bow from the mouth of Bullion Creek on the one side to the mouth of Spring Creek on the other, then followed the course of the Little Missouri southward once more. They met the old Fort Keogh trail where it crossed ...

— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn

... around the hotel, with his hands in his pockets, occasionally glancing out of the window. Finally he went out on the street and walked rapidly around. He would walk hurriedly up one street, cut across, and come down another, and then pass to the point from which he started, always retracing his steps, and ...

— The Expressman and the Detective • Allan Pinkerton

... which lazy, bigoted and incapable merchants can turn incompetency into success—but one into which brains and tenacity and courage can be poured and changed into dollars. It is only a short cut across the fields—not a moving platform. You can't ...

— The Clock that Had no Hands - And Nineteen Other Essays About Advertising • Herbert Kaufman

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