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"Nub" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wideness of unblemished colour. The ship, travelling always in the centre of this infinite disk, seemed strangely identified with his own itinerant spirit, watchful at the gist of things, alert at the point which was necessarily, for him, the nub of all existence. He wandered about the Pomerania's sagely ordered passages and found her more and more magical. She went on and on, with some strange urgent vitality of her own. Through the fiddleys on the boat deck came a hot oily breath and the steady drumming of her burning ...
— Where the Blue Begins • Christopher Morley
... one of them on this ranch five years ago, and I'll tell you about it, so that you can see the nub of this whole question. I didn't pan out particularly well those days—drank more whisky than was prescribed for me and didn't seem to care for my duty as a patriotic American citizen; so I took that pagan in, as a kind of cook. But when I got religion over at the ...
— Can Such Things Be? • Ambrose Bierce |
Words linked to "Nub" : piece, excrescence, cognitive content, jut, swelling, meat, hump, bare bones, protrusion, content, stub, prominence, bump, haecceity, extrusion, part, quiddity, quintessence, protuberance, mental object, stuff, gibbosity, bulge, hypostasis, gibbousness |
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