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"Cut back" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him,' said Saddlebank, still at his business: 'here, you two, cut back by the down and try all your might to get a dozen apples before Catman counts heads at the door, and you ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... Where the bark is loosened for some distance around the tree or vertically it dies shortly thereafter, but where only a small amount of splitting occurs, the tree may recover if given attention. In such cases the bark should be cut back to the living tissue and all particles of dead or injured bark scraped off. The exposed area should then be coated with a good ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association
... has two edges; it can cut back-stroke and fore-stroke. If it doth thee no good, it will do thee hurt; it is 'the savour of life unto life' to those that receive it, but of 'death unto death' to them that refuse it (2 Cor 2:15,16). But this is not all; the tender of grace to the biggest sinners, in the first place, will not ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... travelled was not the one Leigh had taken that October afternoon when he made his bicycle trip to Hillside, but a parallel way about half a mile to the south. As they neared the other side of the valley, Emmet took a cross-cut back to the northern road and passed her house, without knowing that the place at which she glanced in passing was her home. She had no desire to tell him, for it seemed mean and homely in her eyes. She saw her father's silhouette on the curtain, ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins |
Words linked to "Cut back" : deflate, take away, disbud, inflate, limit, shear, retrench, decrease, immobilize, shave, slash, immobilise, knock off, lessen, quench, shorten, spill, pollard, return, cutback, abridge, downsize, pinch, top, thin out, subtract, poll, minify, confine, detract, thin, circumscribe |
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