"Put under" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are not devils," I insisted; "and those cross-pieces were put under their feet simply to ...
— Kokoro - Japanese Inner Life Hints • Lafcadio Hearn
... directions, Rollo opened the trunk and took out from it all the clothing, both for day and night, which he thought that he and Jennie would require during the voyage. The night dresses he put under the pillows in the berths. The cloaks, and coats, and shawls which might be required on deck in the day he placed on the couches. Those which belonged to him he put in his state room, and those that belonged to Jennie in hers. While engaged ...
— Rollo on the Atlantic • Jacob Abbott
... put under the care of two guardians, one of whom, Mr. Abbey, taking the sole responsibility, immediately removed John from school and apprenticed him for five years ...
— Keats: Poems Published in 1820 • John Keats
... [Of trotting paritors] An apparitor, or paritor. is an officer of the bishop's court who carries out citations; as citations are most frequently issued for fornication, the paritor is put under Cupid's government. ...
— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson
... had been turned out in the Park, and Mr. Talbot had taken a new horse, which Ned had insisted on calling "Fulvius," from its colour, for Ned was such a scholar that he was to be sent to study at Cambridge. Then he would have wandered off to little Lady Arbell's being put under Master Sniggius's tuition, but Cicely would bring him back to ...
— Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland • Charlotte M. Yonge
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