"Raw" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Not the raw recruit, marching from the bosom of his wife into the fever heat of his first battle; not the dead man's ghost encountering the first unknown phantom in the other world;—neither of these can feel stranger and stronger emotions than ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
... there were nothing but distressingly bright pictures by artists who had had the bad taste to paint raw Nature just as they ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861 • Various
... nature of many of his calls, the following brace of incidents were related to Mr. Holland by an eye witness: "Mr. Lincoln, being seated in conversation with a gentleman one day, two raw, plainly-dressed young 'Suckers' entered the room, and bashfully lingered near the door. As soon as he observed them, and apprehended their embarrassment, he rose and walked to them, saying, 'How ...
— Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday • Various
... shell, swimming and diving as if they had been accustomed to it for weeks instead of hours. In some ways, however, they required a good deal of care. For one thing, their little stomachs were not quite equal to the task of assimilating raw fish, and the parents had to swallow all their food for them, keep it down till it was partly digested, and then pass it up again to the hungry children. It made a good deal of delay, and it must have ...
— Forest Neighbors - Life Stories of Wild Animals • William Davenport Hulbert
... in here and reap the benefit; you want to send us out of here, beggars." His voice leaped from its repression; it now betrayed the passion that was consuming him; it came through his teeth: "You can't hand me that sort of a raw deal, Corrigan, and make me like it. Understand that, right now. You're bucking the wrong man. You can drag the courts into it; you can wriggle around a thousand legal corners, but damn you, you can't avert what's bound to come if you ...
— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer
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