Famous quotes containing the word put:
“‘Twas not by ideas,—by heaven! his life was put in jeopardy by words.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“I do not regret my not having seen this before, since I now saw it under circumstances so favorable. I was in just the frame of mind to see something wonderful, and this was a phenomenon adequate to my circumstances and expectation, and it put me on the alert to see more like it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)