"Cut-and-dried" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... twice within the past few months he had suspected that his cut-and-dried views on good and evil were not shared by Scaife. Scaife confessed to Desmond that the Old Adam was strong in him. He liked, craved for, the excitement of breaking the law. Hitherto, this breaking of the law had been ...
— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell
... the worst of talking to a lawyer," she said severely: "his legal mind takes such cut-and-dried views. Granted that it is a speculation, it seems a promising one; and nothing venture, nothing have. I don't know how you feel, Die, but I am quite willing to do my share." Then Dinah, who was in quite a flutter of excitement and pleasure, looked at her ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... were born. Your uncle and aunt and my parents had it all framed up. I thought you knew. A cut-and-dried affair. Are you not ...
— Garrison's Finish - A Romance of the Race-Course • W. B. M. Ferguson
... regarded Abe sorrowfully. There were few occasions to which Linkheimer could not do justice with a cut-and-dried sentiment or a well-worn aphorism, and he was about to expatiate on ingratitude in business when ...
— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass
... first day along the coast, sleep at Falelatai that night; then cross the range to the little bush village at the foot of Tofua Mountain, sleep there, and then go on to Malua in the morning. At Malua we get Harry Bevere's boat, and he takes us to Apia. Tom, it is a cut-and-dried affair, but now that I've told you of it, I may as well tell you that Malie has aided and abetted us—the dear old fellow. We shall be treated like princesses at every village all along the route, and I doubt very much if ...
— John Frewen, South Sea Whaler - 1904 • Louis Becke
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