Famous quotes containing the word put:
“Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 22:19.
“We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, will often peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)