"Tut" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nocendi was taken away, yet that was no good reason why the Chorus should entirely cease. M. Dacier mistakes the matter. Le choeur se tut ignominuesement, parce-que la hi reprimasa licence, et que ce sut, a proprement parler, la hi qui le bannit; ce qu' Horace regarde comme une espece de sietrissure. Properly speaking, the law only abolished the abuse of the chorus. The ignominy lay in dropping ...
— The Art Of Poetry An Epistle To The Pisos - Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola Ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica. • Horace
... "Tut, tut, boy!" said he, presently, with a very grave look. "Have ye forgotten the tatters that were as a badge of honour an' success? Weeks ago I planned to find thee better garments, but, on me word, I had no heart for it. Nay, these old ones had become dear to me. I was proud o' ...
— Darrel of the Blessed Isles • Irving Bacheller
... 'Tut, the clack of them! Steadily! Steadily! Aye, as you say, sir, they're little ones still; One long reach should open it readily, Round by St. Helens ...
— Songs of Action • Arthur Conan Doyle
... "Tut, tut, lass!" said old Dan, clearing his throat energetically. "If one wife and four daughters cannot keep a man's buttons on, there's somewhat wanting somewhere. I shall miss thy singing, I dare say; ...
— Our Little Lady - Six Hundred Years Ago • Emily Sarah Holt
... you brag that you have stopped him from making a fool of himself," purred the Squire. "Tut! Tut! He's worse than ever. I heard him tell you that you're discharged from ...
— When Egypt Went Broke • Holman Day
... Ferrier. Tut, tut, this is very singular. (Makes another effort to grapple with it.) What books have you been ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 • Various
... "Tut, tut! Puss," said Father Gilder, who was smoking his pipe by the fire. "What! naughty on your birth-day? I thought you were going to be good always after this. ...
— Seven Little People and their Friends • Horace Elisha Scudder
... "Hut! tut!" said Farmer Hartley, looking up from his paper with a smile. "What's all this? Are ye keepin' all the jokes ...
— Queen Hildegarde • Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
... "Tut, tut! Your tongue is hung in the middle this morning. Ta, ta, ta, ta! You are setting me at defiance, I do believe. I daresay you are ...
— Eugenie Grandet • Honore de Balzac
... way afoot; and at night Arose in the midst of dreams to rummage the house for a bite. It is good for the youth in his turn to follow the way of the sire; And behold how fitting the time! for here do I cover my fire." - "I see the fire for the cooking but never the meat to cook," Said Tamatea.—"Tut!" said Rahero. "Here in the brook And there in the tumbling sea, the fishes are thick as flies, Hungry like healthy men, and like pigs for savour and size: Crayfish crowding the river, sea-fish thronging the sea." - "Well it may be," says the other, "and yet be nothing to me. Fain would ...
— Ballads • Robert Louis Stevenson
... to everybody. On Monday he would reappear. The hiatus afforded a peg from which much unprofitable speculation was suspended. The argument most plausible was that he went home, while one romantic youth suggested a girl. The accusation was never repeated. What? The "Lord" a ladies' man? Tut! One would as soon expect a statue to ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge
... tut, but we'll have no such words as these, my bairn. If the Lord lets these things happen, we'll maybe find that He's had some good reason for't. He's always in the right. And ye must just learn to bow yourself, Brian, to the will of the Almighty, for there's no denying but He's laid ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... "Tut, tut! Rowena!" I replied. "I believe that I understand you, simple as I am myself, and you need not marry me at all. I understand you perfectly. You are just a fine young girl, out on almost your first vacation, with your ...
— Maw's Vacation - The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone • Emerson Hough
... for life to a mindless piece of physical prettiness—what man of brains could bear it? He had yielded to a natural impulse—true! That moment of temptation threatened painful consequences—still true! What then? Nothing! Was the dead fruit to hang about his neck forever? Tut!—all natural law was against it. Had he not said that he was above prejudice? So was he above the maudlin sentiment of the "great lovers of noble histories." The sophistry grew apace with Greta's beautiful countenance before him. Catching at ...
— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine
... 'What murmurest thou of mystery? Think ye this fellow will poison the King's dish? Nay, for he spake too fool-like: mystery! Tut, an the lad were noble, he had asked For horse and armour: fair and fine, forsooth! Sir Fine-face, Sir Fair-hands? but see thou to it That thine own fineness, Lancelot, some fine day Undo thee not—and leave my ...
— Idylls of the King • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
... "Tut, tut. Fair and softly, my son, or more haste may be worse speed. Methought ye had somewhat to ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge
... bookcase, ran his eye along a shelf, took down a volume, and began, in a low tone: "'Cooperation is the mighty lever upon which an effete society relies to extricate itself from its swaddling-clothes and take a loftier flight.' Tut, tut! What stuff is this? I beg your pardon. I was reading from a work on moral philosophy. Where the ...
— The Ink-Stain, Complete • Rene Bazin
... in the least. [Imagines he sees Ballarat.] Ballarat! dear old boy! Tut! tut! Ballarat! Well, this is kind. But I can't be ...
— Standard Selections • Various
... mistake the matter quite; Your barking curs will seldom bite And though you hear him stut-tut-tut-ter, He barks as fast as he can utter. He prates in spite of all impediment, While none believes that what he said he meant; Puts in his finger and his thumb To grope for words, and out they come. He calls ...
— Poems (Volume II.) • Jonathan Swift
... nose. We thought their language more harsh than that of the islanders in the South Sea, and they were continually repeating the word chercau, which we imagined to be a term expressing admiration, by the manner in which it was uttered: They also cried out, when they saw any thing new, Cher, tut, tut, tut, tut! which probably had a similar signification. Their canoe was not above ten feel long, and very narrow, but it was fitted with an outrigger, much like those of the islands, though in every respect very much inferior: When it was in shallow water, they set it on with poles, and when ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 • Robert Kerr
... He said suddenly, "Tut, tut!" and shrugged his shoulders. He hung his head for a minute, then he added, "Mind, I don't say—I don't say that it mayn't be as you say. You're a very nice young fellow.... But what I say is—I am a public man—you ...
— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
... More did not care for these things, she liked better to dress herself very smartly and lace herself very tight; and when her husband laughed at her, she said, 'Tilly, vally, Sir Thomas! tilly, vally!' just as we should say, 'Tut, tut!' ...
— The Children's Book of London • Geraldine Edith Mitton
... tut. Ah! I see you are Henderson's nephew. Well, judging from his experience, relatives are like to be ...
— Bristol Bells - A Story of the Eighteenth Century • Emma Marshall
... Rayner, leaning back in an easy chair, who spoke; but when I apologised for making myself so at home, she said sharply, 'Tut, child! No company manners here, or I shall wish you away. Now I want some tea. How long have ...
— Dwell Deep - or Hilda Thorn's Life Story • Amy Le Feuvre
... "Tut!" said the old man. "Do you mean to tell me that with all the money I've got you can't get an hour or two of a girl's time ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry
... "Tut, tut!" cried the clergyman, in a boisterous voice, which could not cover the despondency of his expression; "you thought, no doubt, that it was all over with me, but here I am in spite of it. Never lose heart, Mrs. Belmont. Your husband's position could ...
— A Desert Drama - Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" • A. Conan Doyle
... "Tut, tut, sir," reproved Hobbs, who, as has been said before, was a privileged character by virtue of long service and his previous calling as a Cook's interpreter. ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... to the regulation of the life of the people . . . comma . . . it cannot be said that they are marked by the nationalism of their forms . . . the last three words in inverted commas. . . . Aie, aie . . . tut, tut . . . so what did you want to say ...
— The Chorus Girl and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... 'Tut, tut! I certainly owed that much to our old friendship. It's I who am delighted to have given you ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola
... "Tut — tut!" cautioned the Scarecrow "wait, until Jellia translates my speech. What have we got an interpreter for, if you break out ...
— The Marvelous Land of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... when these last stooped to help the child, they found that all the Nothing had been used up (and that is why there is none of it about to-day). So the little fellow began to cry, but they, to comfort him, said: "Tut, lad! tut! do not cry; do your best with this bit of mud. It will always serve to ...
— On Nothing & Kindred Subjects • Hilaire Belloc
... "Tut, tut, my good woman," returned his lordship. "Pooh, pooh! Do for firewood. Nice and dry against the winter. Much better there than obstructing the high-road—much better. ...
— Aunt Rachel • David Christie Murray
... pit-saw!" exclaimed MacSweenie, with a touch of asperity. "All the planks we want are sawn, an' if they were not, surely we could mend—tut, man, I wonder ye can play the fuddle. It always seemed to me that a goot fuddler must be a man of sentiment, but ye are the exception, Tonal', that proves the rule. Away wi' you an' gie my orders to the cook, an' see that you have the fuddle in goot tune, for ...
— The Walrus Hunters - A Romance of the Realms of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne
... couldst ride her, lad? She will have no burden but mine. Thou couldst never ride her. Tut! I would be loath ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore
... "Tut, tut, man! 'Twas very polite of you," returned Gay good-humouredly. "I'm glad to be able to congratulate you on the success of your new acquisition, especially as the little lady interests me greatly—as, indeed, ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce
... "Tut, tut!" said the priest. "How many acts of a love drama do you think an old bookworm like me capable of witnessing? Besides, what kind of figures do we cut, spying upon the mysteries of midnight millinery! Go to meet your wife to-morrow, as she ordered you, ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry
... "Tut, tut, Mary! Ye're jest wearied out and blue, and ye don't know what ye say. Think of yer poor childer. What would they do without ...
— Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road • R. Henry Mainer
... due? The lady should be pressed to her chicken, the old man helped to his favourite and tender slice, the child to his tart. But not a fraction of a minute have we to bestow on any other person than ourselves; and the PRUT-PRUT—TUT-TUT of the guard's discordant note summons us to the coach, the weaker party having gone without their dinner, and the able-bodied and active threatened with indigestion, from having swallowed victuals like a Lei'stershire clown ...
— Chronicles of the Canongate • Sir Walter Scott
... "Tut!" interrupts she, lightly, yet with a little sob in her throat. His praise is so sweet to her. "You overrate me. Is it for them I would do it or for you? There, take all the thought for yourself. ...
— April's Lady - A Novel • Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
... "Tut-tut, mother—what's the use of carrying on so? To be sure I am your son, in flesh and blood, and just the same as ever, only changed a little for the better. But where's the use in crying? ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 • Various
... tut!" said Hawkins. "This is nothing serious. I'll just start the propeller on the reverse and we'll ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin
... "Tut, tut," said Miss Prettyman, as Grace in vain tried to conceal her tears up in the private sanctum. "You ought to know me by this time, and to have learned that I can understand things." The tears had flown in return not only for the ...
— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope
... sas i sarla, Baro zī sas tut, sar, tarno rom, Lhatián i jivimáski patrin, Ta līán o ...
— Old Familiar Faces • Theodore Watts-Dunton
... "Tut, tut, tut!" growled the major. "Haven't done anything. Bless my soul, Chief, take my word for it, haven't done a thing to be thanked for. Here's your hotel. Get some coffee to brace your nerves up with, for I can assure you, boy, a wedding is a trying ordeal, even if ...
— The Moccasin Maker • E. Pauline Johnson
... Balthezar. Tut, love me, man, when we have drunk Hot blood together; wounds will tie An everlasting settled amity, And ...
— The Growth of English Drama • Arnold Wynne
... "Tut," said the Parson, affecting an easy air, though still contemplating the pad, who appeared to have fallen into a quiet doze, "it is true that I have not ridden much of late years, and the Squire's horses are very high fed and ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various
... "Tut, nonsense!" but as Olivia took his hand and held it in her firm grasp, there was a sudden moisture in the old ...
— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... now, thou art a precious ass:—thou wouldst be a wit without brains, and a rogue, ay, a very wicked and unconditional rogue, without courage. Tut, that same cowardly rogue, of all unparalleled villains, is verily the worst. Your liquorish cat, skulking and scared with a windle-straw, is always the biggest thief, and has the cruellest paws, for all her demure looks ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... tut, there is no marrying for my boys. Charles is disposed of, and if Edmund can take a wife at thirty, he will be better off than many in his profession; he is now but a little ...
— The Barbadoes Girl - A Tale for Young People • Mrs. Hofland
... "Tut-tut! be careful how you criticise your neighbors," spoke a rasping voice near by. "As a matter of fact you are rather ugly-looking creatures yourselves, and I'm sure mother has often told us we were the loveliest and prettiest things in all ...
— Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz • L. Frank Baum.
... cheerful tact). Tut tut, Sir Howard: what's the use of talking back? Come along: we'll make ...
— Captain Brassbound's Conversion • George Bernard Shaw
... it is," said the major, "that we have let them carry off those two spans of bullocks. Tut, tut, tut! Forty of them; tough as leather, of course, but toothsome when you ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... "Tut, tut!" said the Bishop. "The customs of a church cannot be set aside to accommodate a child's flower-bed. You'll find other things to please you in Redding, Mistress Mary. Come, come, dry your eyes. Your father's daughter should not set an ...
— Nine Little Goslings • Susan Coolidge
... "Tut, tut, my son, bide your time," exclaimed Stede Bonnet as they met on deck. "Tell it later. The master's ...
— Blackbeard: Buccaneer • Ralph D. Paine
... "Tut, tut, Thyra, nothing very terrible. There's no need to look like that about it. Young men will be young men to the end of time, and there's no harm in Chester's liking to look at a lass, eh, now? Or in ...
— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... horses, and followed by six dogs of the chase. But many have heard the low bellowing of his hounds, and the splashing of his horse's feet in the swamps of the moor; many have heard his cry of "Hu! hu!" and seen his associate and forerunner—the Tut-Osel, ...
— Folk-lore and Legends: German • Anonymous
... "Tut, tut!—I will return," said the king perversely. And Suffolk, knowing his wilfulness, and that all remonstrance would prove fruitless, retraced his steps with him. They had not proceeded far when they perceived a female figure at the bottom of the ascent, just where the path turned off on the ...
— Windsor Castle • William Harrison Ainsworth
... to foot. The bitter truth seemed to strike him with startling force. Imprisonment, and all it involved, was no longer a dim possibility: it was a grim reality that might have to be faced to-morrow. "Tut, tut, Joe!" I said, grasping his arm and laughing. But the laugh was half a failure, and there was a suspicious moisture in my eyes, which I turned my ...
— Prisoner for Blasphemy • G. W. [George William] Foote
... "Tut! Don't tell me! Because he has some respect for himself and keeps his own counsel you are simple enough to think he will ...
— The Eternal City • Hall Caine
... Mister Robert Robin calling. He was standing beside the nest and saying, "Tut! Tut! ...
— Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin • Ben Field
... only as a god means a good to them. Men are heirs of heaven, they say; and, in right of their heritage, they make life hell to every living thing that dares dispute the world with them. You do not understand that,—tut! You are not human then. If you were human, you would begrudge a blade of grass to a rabbit, and arrogate to yourself a ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida
... "Tut, tut," said the iron gentleman, who was the famous Captain Evan Shelby of King's Meadows, "he'll leave her here in our settlements while he helps us fight Dragging ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... won over Baudichon, who was by nature of a kind heart. "Tut, tut," he said; "you must not take it to heart, ...
— The Long Night • Stanley Weyman
... "Tut-tut!" says I. "I suppose, when you two had your heads together so close, he was rehearsin' one of his speeches to you—the kind he makes ...
— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford
... "Tut, tut, tut!" he muttered. "Well, that means I'll have to do office work for the next week or so. Humph! I declare it's too bad just now when I was countin' on him to—" He did not finish the sentence, but ...
— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... "Tut, tut, tut!" cried the captain angrily, as he glanced at his watch. "When I came aboard: and it's now half an hour later. How came ...
— Old Gold - The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig • George Manville Fenn
... "Tut! it quite blinds one!" says the mamma of Sophonisba. Christofle's window is startling. It is heaped to the top with a mound of plated spoons and forks. They glitter in the light so fiercely that the eye cannot bear ...
— The Cockaynes in Paris - 'Gone abroad' • Blanchard Jerrold
... "Tut!" said Miss Bidwell, to whom this novel idea savored of ungodliness, but wishing to be lenient toward the child whose adoring slave she was. "Miss Euphemia would be shocked to ...
— An Unwilling Maid • Jeanie Gould Lincoln
... est Deus ab initio usque ad law of nature God should still reserve | finem. within his own curtain, yet many and noble | are the inferior and secondary operations | Luther Bible: Prediger Salomo 3,11: which are within man's sounding. This is a | Er aber tut alles fein zu seiner Zeit thing which I cannot tell whether I may so | und lt ihr Herz sich ngstigen, wie plainly speak as truly conceive, that as | es gehen solle in der Welt; denn der all knowledge appeareth to be a plant of | Mensch kann doch nicht treffen das God's own planting, so it may ...
— Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature • Sir Francis Bacon
... come to me sudden like, 'Freddie 's grown now, an' he 'll be havin' a girl of his own purty soon, ef he 'ain't got one now. Mebbe it 'll be 'Lizabeth.'" The old man paused for a moment; his eyes rested on the boy's fiery face. "Tut, tut," he resumed, "you ain't ashamed, air you? Well, what air you a-gittin' so red fur? Havin' a girl ain't nothin' to be ashamed of, or skeered about neither. Most people have girls one time or another, ...
— The Uncalled - A Novel • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... "Tut, tut!" said Lord Crawford, "never shame his Highness for that. It is not the first time a Scottish boy hath broke a good lance—I am glad the youth hath ...
— Quentin Durward • Sir Walter Scott
... plays, I have added short strictures, containing a general censure of faults, or praise of excellence; in which I know not how much I have concurred with the current opinion; tut I have not, by any affectation of singularity, deviated from it. Nothing is minutely and particularly examined, and therefore it is to be supposed, that in the plays which are condemned there is much to be praised, and in these which are praised ...
— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot
... as bad as Carlos, here!" Harrington tut-tutted. "Next, you'll be saying that we ought to depose Jaikark ...
— Uller Uprising • Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
... Sir James were meantime apparently uttering some remonstrance, to which he lightly replied, 'Tut, Nigel; it will do thine heart good to hew down a minion of Albany. What were I worth could I not strike a blow against so foul a wrong to my own orphan kindred? Brewster, I'll answer it to thy master. These are his foes, as well ...
— The Caged Lion • Charlotte M. Yonge
... dear boy! how you loved me once!—you do still! then follow my directions. I have a head. Ay, you think it wild? 'Tis true, my mother was a poetess. But I will convince my son as I am convincing the world-tut, tut! To avoid swelling talk, I tell you, Richie, I have my hand on the world's wheel, and now is the time for you to spring from it and gain your altitude. If you ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... "Tut, tut, my boy, no fine speeches. Apropos of this Garrison, why are you so interested in him? Wish to emulate him, eh? Yes, I've seen him ride, but only once, when he was a bit of a lad. I fancy Colonel Desha ...
— Garrison's Finish - A Romance of the Race-Course • W. B. M. Ferguson
... "Tut, tut! don't be cruel," said Mister Woodchuck. "Remember the poor creature is a prisoner, and isn't used to good society; and ...
— Twinkle and Chubbins - Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland • L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
... "Tut-tut, my boy Jack! You have never actually heard the lady's voice!" And as this was true I had nothing further to offer; but he brightened up, adding: "We shall now go to the stomach of the bomb, ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris
... "Tut, tut! No, no, my dear, that sort of thing will not do." He looked at her in silence for some time. "Perhaps, my dear," said he at last, "you ...
— The Magnificent Adventure - Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and - the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman • Emerson Hough
... "Tut! she'll have the money, and he the brains. Mark my words, Doctor, that boy'll be a credit to you; he'll make a noise in the world, or I know nothing. And if his fancy holds seven years hence, and he wants still to turn traveller, let him. If he's minded to go round the ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley
... Tut, tut! If you had anything left to give us, your language would be different; now that you have nothing, you expect ...
— Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi • Plautus Titus Maccius
... captain. "Tut, tut! How I am obliged to eat my words. You're a good fellow, Shanter," he cried, clapping the black on the shoulder. "Go and have some damper.—Give him ...
— The Dingo Boys - The Squatters of Wallaby Range • G. Manville Fenn
... "Tut, tut!" the young man said. "Anyone could see that with half an eye. Besides, consider your ...
— Werwolves • Elliott O'Donnell
... friends?" she said. "Tut, tut, the lad's in his twenty-eighth year, and he is still leading a gay bachelor life; tut, ...
— The Witch and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... of Louisiana to the United States, Baron P.N. Tut Bastrop contracted with the Spanish government for a tract of land exceeding thirty miles square near Nachitoches. By the terms of the contract he was, within a given period of time, to settle upon these lands two hundred families. Subsequently Colonel Charles Lynch made an arrangement with ...
— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis
... "Tut, Lambkin! thou wouldst not play the shrew to so noble a lord, that soon, no doubt, will be ...
— Mistress Penwick • Dutton Payne
... "Tut, Roddy! you can stay here if you are afraid. I won't be more than a minute. There's no use going on a ghost hunt unless—Great Lord, there's something coming down ...
— Rodney Stone • Arthur Conan Doyle
... ANTONY. Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know Wherefore they do it: they could be content To visit other places, and come down With fearful bravery, thinking by this face 10 To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage; But 'tis ...
— The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Caesar • William Shakespeare
... "Tut, tut! I'll hold un safe, ma'am," said the windmiller, who had all a man's dislike for shirking at the last moment what had once been decided upon; and, as the nurse afterwards expressed it, before she had time to scream, ...
— Jan of the Windmill • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... "Tut, tut!" said Pringle in a tolerant undertone. "Why, chicken, you're not trying to get gay with your old Uncle ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... "Tut, tut! You're excited. You mustn't talk like that. I give you credit for an honest hatred, but—I can't sympathize with it. Neither can I believe so ill of Henry Nelson. Remember, I've known him and Bell for years." With a complete finality the banker concluded, ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... "Tut, tut. Please don't. It is going to be a very warm day. I really can't go into any argument. Take my word, you will marry soon; or if you don't, you will reverse all the known horoscopes of the family. That, too, is the fate of the Ellison girls—certain marriage! ...
— The Law of the Land • Emerson Hough
... child, there was never a book yet that held a sensible view of love, and I hope you will pay no attention to what they say. As for waiting until you can't live without a man before you marry him—tut-tut! the only necessary question is to ascertain if you can possibly live with him. There is a great deal of sentiment talked in life, my dear, and very little lived—and my experience of the world has shown me that one man is likely to make quite as good a husband as another—provided ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... "Tut!" interrupted Lord Lilburne, in great disdain. "I am as rich as I want to be. Money does not bribe me. I manage this! I! Lord Lilburne. I! Why, if found out, it is subornation of witnesses. It is exposure— it is dishonour—it is ruin. What then? You should take the ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 5 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... "Oh, tut, tut! We must not abridge the liberties of: the press or the people! [Footnote: The suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, 1863, was sorely against the President's sentiments, fond of liberty himself and fixed on constitutional rule—but ...
— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams
... HARRISON. Tut! Arms are scarce as soldiers in our town, And I am sick of requisitioning. Nay, we must trust to something else than arms. Tecumseh is a savage but in name—Let's trust to him! What ...
— Tecumseh: A Drama • Charles Mair
... "Tut, tut, boy! You know nothing about it. I made a slight miscalculation in crops, that was all. But this year ...
— The Rover Boys at School • Arthur M. Winfield
... more Saint Swithin knocked upon the door. The good man came. He'd grown fat And lusty, like a well-fed cat. Thereat the Saint was pleased. Quoth he, "Give me a crust for charity." "A crust, thou say'st? Hut, tut! How now? Wouldst come a-begging here? I trow, Thou lazy rascal, thou couldst find Enough of work hadst thou a mind! 'Tis thine own fault if thou art poor. Begone, sir!" Bang!—he shut ...
— Pepper & Salt - or, Seasoning for Young Folk • Howard Pyle
... two were so close that Tom could plainly see the black Maltese crosses on the wings of the Teuton plane as it tilted in climbing. Already had the other opened fire on him, for as his motor was silent during his first long dive Tom could catch the tut-tut-tut of the rapidly ...
— Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines - The German Spy's Secret • Charles Amory Beach
... "Swell chance I've got to retire! I'll die in the harness whether I want to or not. Tut, tut, my boy! Don't be afraid to put me in as a pinch hitter for this organization. The worst I can do is to single—and I might clout ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... he understood not the system only, but also the nature of mankind. The people at the Thornwick did not want him. Very good, so much the better for him and for them; because the more they wanted him, the less would he go near them. Tut! tut! tut! he said; what did he ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore
... "Tut, uncle!" said the young man impatiently. "I am a soldier of the king's, and I am willing to let the black gown and the white surplice settle these matters between them. Let me live in honour and die in my duty, and I am content to wait to ...
— The Refugees • Arthur Conan Doyle
... "Tut, tut, Kay, dear! When an obnoxious heir is reported dead, he should have the decency to stay dead, although, now that our particular nuisance is here, alive and well, I suppose we ought to let bygones be bygones and be nice to him—provided, of course, he continues to be nice ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne
... "Now, tut, St. George," Amory put in tolerantly, "next to doing exactly what you will be doing all this week you'd rather ...
— Romance Island • Zona Gale
... fool for thy pains, kinsman," said my lord. "Tut, tut, man. Go and see the world. Sow thy wild oats; and take the best luck that Fate sends thee. I wish I were a boy again, that I might go to college, ...
— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. • W. M. Thackeray
... 'Tut; you had best stay where you are, for the night grows wilder every instant.' As he spoke there came a whoop and scream of wind in the chimney, as if the old place were coming down about our ears. ...
— Uncle Bernac - A Memory of the Empire • Arthur Conan Doyle
... "Tut, tut!" said Battersleigh. "There speaks the coxcombry of youth. I make no doubt ye'd be the best-dressed man there if ye'd go as ye stand now. But what about Batty? On me honour, Ned, I've never been so low in kit ...
— The Girl at the Halfway House • Emerson Hough
... "Tut," said he, wrenching himself violently away from the benign influence, "it was not to sympathize with Hector, but to conquer with Achilles, that Alexander of Macedon kept Homer under his pillow. Such should be the use of books to him who has the practical world to subdue; let parsons and women construe ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various
... "Tut, tut! what can you expect to learn from a mere lad like him?—when he saw her only for an instant! Just wait; I will find out all about this nameless ...
— The Nameless Castle • Maurus Jokai
... was no more than six, that disgusted "Tut!" would start her instantly down a dark cellar-way or up into the dreaded garret, even when she could feel the goose-flesh rising all over her. Between the porringer, which obliged her to be a little ...
— Georgina of the Rainbows • Annie Fellows Johnston
... PETER. Tut, tut, boy, why shouldn't she? you're young and wouldn't be ill-favoured either, had God or thy mother given thee another face. Aren't you one of Prince Maraloffski's gamekeepers; and haven't you got a good grass farm, and the best cow in ...
— Vera - or, The Nihilists • Oscar Wilde
... "Tut, tut, Jeemes Brown. Don't stand there arguing. It's a gude and necessary regulation, but it's no' the law o' the land. I turned the dog in to settle a matter with my ain conscience, and John Knox would have done the same thing in the bonny face o' Queen Mary. What it is, is nae beesiness ...
— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson
... "Tut, tut!" he replied. "The ways of God are past all understanding. When I think of how you came to me unsought and unbidden, and now, how Captain Forest of a ...
— When Dreams Come True • Ritter Brown
... he marched to the garden. He opened the trap-door, and went down the steep steps to the room below. There was the door at the end of the room, but when he came to look there was no key-hole to it. "Pshaw!" said he, "here is a pretty state of affairs. Tut! tut! tut! Well, since I have come so far, it would be a pity to turn back without seeing more." So he opened the door and ...
— Twilight Land • Howard Pyle
... twelve in your threats and outcries, and that after you had stewed his carcass down for a soup! . . . Tut, tut, my children! You have your lesson—take it and go ...
— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Mr. Vincey. "Tut, tut," and "Dear me!" He could think of nothing else to say. He was naturally very much surprised. He turned from the room to the porter and from the porter to the room in the gravest perplexity. Beyond his suggestion that probably Mr. Bessel would ...
— Twelve Stories and a Dream • H. G. Wells
... TOMMY, you remember what became of KATHERINE of Aragon, I'm sure? No, no—tut—tut—she wasn't executed! I'm afraid you're getting rather rusty with these long holidays. Remind me to speak to your mother about setting you a chapter or so of history to read every day when ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, January 25th, 1890 • Various
... Knig Ringangs Tchterlein? Rohtraut, Schn-Rohtraut. Was tut sie denn den ganzen Tag, Da sie wohl nicht spinnen und nhen mag? Tut fischen und jagen. 5 O da ich doch ihr Jger wr'! Fischen und Jagen freute mich sehr.— Schweig stille, ...
— A Book Of German Lyrics • Various
... "Tut, tut! Don't exaggerate. I needed a man the worst kind of way—a man I could keep for at least six months. What do you ...
— The Ragged Edge • Harold MacGrath
... the blacker grew the peat she was blowing at. It would indeed blaze up at her breath, but the moment she brought the candle near it to catch the flame, it grew black, and each time blacker than before. 'Tut! give me the candle,' cried the farmer, springing out of bed; 'I will light it for you!' But as he stretched out his hand to take it, the woman disappeared, and he saw that the fire was dead out. 'Here's a fine business!' he said. ...
— What's Mine's Mine • George MacDonald
... MERYLL Tut, sir, no risk. I'll warrant none here will recognise you. You make a brave Yeoman, sir! So— this ruff is too high; so— and the sword should hang thus. Here is your halbert, sir; carry it thus. The Yeomen come. Now, remember, you are ...
— The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan - The 14 Gilbert And Sullivan Plays • William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
... "Tut, tut!" said he, shaking his head as the boy finished, "this is a bad business. If I had not thought you were together somewhere, I would have been with you. I'm afraid your brother has got into bad company, which I should be sorry enough for, I ...
— The Brother Clerks - A Tale of New-Orleans • Xariffa
... all the time! I may have dozed of, though. Certainly—certainly. Look for the little rascal. What's he stolen? Diamonds! Tut! tut! Enterprising, isn't he? ... Miss Omar, won't you kindly reach the bell yonder—no, on the table; that's it—and ring for some one to take the ...
— In the Bishop's Carriage • Miriam Michelson
... "Tut! tut!" John Girdlestone said peevishly. "What are the Government inspectors for? There is no use paying them if we are to inspect ourselves. If they insist upon any alterations they shall ...
— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle
... "Tut, tut," replied Cuddie, "ye should forget and forgie, mistress. Mither's in Glasgow wi' her tittie, and sall plague ye nae mair; and I'm the Captain's wallie now, and I keep him tighter in thack and rape than ever ye did;—saw ye ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... nuts and is a hermit, and it's a mile to his camp through the thick woods; my mother'll never let me go there," objected Alice. "There's Uncle Tut Judson." ...
— New Chronicles of Rebecca • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... "Tut! tut! tut! I am not such a good fellow as you think. I am not frightened of blood, and that I have proved already, though it would be useless to tell you how and where. But I had no necessity to prove it to her, for she knows that I am capable of a good ...
— Selected Writings of Guy de Maupassant • Guy de Maupassant
... "Tut!" and Miss Tranter tossed her head. "What do you want to be grateful to me for! You've had food and lodging, and you've paid me for it. I've offered you work and you won't take it. That's the long and short of ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... FACE. Tut, do not say so. You deal now with a noble fellow, doctor, One that will thank you richly; and he is no chiaus: Let that, sir, ...
— The Alchemist • Ben Jonson
... "Tut, tut! young man," he said with a frown, "don't skim through your books in that way. No Saloonio? Why, of course ...
— Literary Lapses • Stephen Leacock
... "Tut, tut, child; if the lightning did not harm him how can this flash? I tell you no man has a right to trifle with you in this manner, and it is your duty to yourself and all of us to find out the truth. Some young rake may have bribed the black, ...
— Love and Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... heft, Br'er Fox." Then Br'er Rabbit make like talking to himself. "Tut, tut, tut! To be sure, to be sure! Many and many's the times I see my old grand-daddy kick and cuff Cousin Wildcat. If you want some fun, Br'er Fox, ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) - Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales • Various
... "Tut! Jabel," said MacNair, "brother Elk has taken rooms for me at Willards', and for the little time you stay at the capital you can lodge with us. A man who has elected a Congressman in spite of the Pennsylvania Railroad shouldn't grudge one visit ...
— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend
... "Tut, tut, ma'am!" said the doctor, pocketing his spectacles; "I never interfere with family affairs, and I never repeat what I hear. The first rules of the profession, young gentleman, and very ...
— We and the World, Part I - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... Gis suenter, cur ilg Filg juven vet tut mess ansemel, scha til['a] 'l navent en uenna Terra dalunsch: a lou sfiget el tut sia ...
— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham
... Mr. Bowley in his dressing-room an hour later. "Tut- tut!"—a comment that was profound enough, though inarticulately expressed, since his valet was ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf
... charming in a proper modesty about one's attainments, but it is necessary that the attainments should be generally recognized first. It was admirable in STEPHENSON to have said (as I am sure he did), when they congratulated him on his first steam-engine, "Tut-tut, it's nothing;" but he could only say this so long as the others were in a position to offer the congratulations. In order to place you in that position I must let you know how extraordinarily ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 25, 1914 • Various
... about the frantic recklessness it encouraged, the cheap views of bodily chastity, the desperate insistence on momentary happiness?" At the mention of bodily chastity, Lady Beddow from the other end of the table had stuttered a "tut, tut!" Her husband dodged it, as a boy might dodge a wheelbarrow upset in his path. Without shifting his glance he ran on. "A complete new set of social and spiritual values! Rubbish! War places an excessive premium on merely ...
— The Kingdom Round the Corner - A Novel • Coningsby Dawson
... "Tut, tut, my dear," said Mrs. Dredge, "what's the good of a full purse except to share it? My poor husband Joshua was his name—we was two J's, dear—he always said, 'Jemima, thank God the chandlery is prospering. A full purse means light hearts, Jemima. We can shed blessings with our means, Jemima.' ...
— The Palace Beautiful - A Story for Girls • L. T. Meade
... memory." The old colonel's voice trembled. And then his shoulders squared like a soldier on parade. "Tut, tut!" he chided. "Why, we are to be gay to-night! And it is almost time for us to be going. We, too, shall celebrate. You shall wear the pendant, just as you ...
— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... "Tut, tut, Eunez!" he laughed. "Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. How about yourself? Didn't I see you going to church with Johnny Lark last Sunday? And then, in the afternoon, you had another cavalier along the beaches. Oh, ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... Tut, tut! Received, you say...? Did you believe perhaps ... I'm something of a philosopher myself, after all.... And you call yourself a ...
— The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie - Three Plays • Arthur Schnitzler
... "Tut! tut! tut! this is too bad! too bad! We must fill up this gulley somehow, Cousin Ma'y Anna. Other folks' victuals are the best physic I know for that sort of work. Miss Nancy would cry her eyes out if I was to go home with the story ...
— When Grandmamma Was New - The Story of a Virginia Childhood • Marion Harland
... the snow is still Along the walls and on the hill. The days are cold, the nights forlorn, For one is here and one is gone. "Tut, tut. Cheerily, Cheer up, cheer ...
— Voices for the Speechless • Abraham Firth
... "Tut! tut! Kate. Don't worry so. The child's just fallen asleep somewhere. He'll be found as soon as it's light. There's nothing to ...
— Bert Lloyd's Boyhood - A Story from Nova Scotia • J. McDonald Oxley
... "O, tut!" said she. "You get along well enough. You like one another full as well as could be expected, only you ain't constituted similar, that's all. She's great for turning off, and going ahead, and she ain't got much patience. Such folks never has. You can't be smart and easy ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... je crois qu'il etait comme un veau, mon lievre." Le Marseillais se tut encore, mais comme on arrivait a une riviere, le Gascon crut que c'etait la Somme ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... she began, "since I christened her, but it had something to do with the way she said, 'Tut, tut'; her teeth, you know, aren't always tight and the effect sounded just like ducky lucky, and so I called her that. It's years ago, and of course they fit better now, but ...
— Phyllis - A Twin • Dorothy Whitehill
... "Hut, tut, tut, but we'll have no such words as these, my bairn. If the Lord lets these things happen, we'll maybe find that He's had some good reason for't. He's always in the right. And ye must just learn to bow yourself, Brian, ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... lad! A Malay and his wife who have been patients of the Doctor bringing in such news as that! Why, it's grand! Poor, dear girl! Tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, what she must have suffered! Well, Mr Rajah Suleiman will have to pay for it. Morley says he believes in these people. Not some ...
— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn
... tragedy, anticipating the grandeur of the Oedipus at Colonos, or Lear—and here eight supplementary verses have anti-climaxed this masterpiece to the level of a boys' novel. "Also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before," &c., &c. Tut-tut! Job's human nature had sustained a laceration that nothing ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy |
