Famous quotes containing the word put:
“When the finishing stroke was put to his work, it suddenly expanded before the eyes of the astonished artist into the fairest of all the creations of Brahma. He had made a new system in making a staff, a world with full and fair proportions; in which, though the old cities and dynasties had passed away, fairer and more glorious ones had taken their places.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It put an insidious fear in him
like a tongue depressor held fast
at the back of your throat.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)