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"Nub" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... great output to you, mister, to tell, do you happen to know who was the nub of that streak of wind and cuss-words that ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... Leipzig, 1877. The Stele was made for Ankh-Psemthek, son of the lady Tent-Het-nub, prophet of Nebun, overseer of Temt and scribe ...
— Legends Of The Gods - The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations • E. A. Wallis Budge
... are to live by this, this is our Mother." And from "Mother Corn" the Indians learned how to make bows and arrows. When these Indians separated into three bands (according to the legend), the boy broke off the nub of the ear and gave it to the Mandans, the big end he gave to the Pawnees, and the middle to the Rees. This is why, at the present time, the Pawnees have the best and largest corn, the Rees somewhat inferior, and the Mandans the shortest of all—since ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... said, "you will know whether this is the handwriting or not. You know it is the handwriting. Now if you will listen, you will know that this must be the list of statistics which was to be the 'nub' of your great effort, and the accompanying blast the beginning of the burst of eloquence which was continued on the next page—and you will recognize that there ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 5. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner
... he cried. "Now she lays steady as a house, all ready to be gutted like a fish. Pass a couple o' lines this way, men. Take in the slack o' the hawser an' make her fast to yonder nub o' rock. Nick Leary, follow after me wid that block an' pulley. Bill, rig yer winch a couple o' yards this way an' stake her down. Keep ten men wid ye—an' the rest o' ye can follow me. But not too close, mind ye! Fetch yer axes along, an' every man ...
— The Harbor Master • Theodore Goodridge Roberts |
Words linked to "Nub" : jut, excrescence, mental object, quiddity, centre, gist, nubble, hump, bump, nitty-gritty, extrusion, hypostasis, inwardness, prominence, nubbin, heart, stuff, marrow, bare bones, meat, cognitive content, gibbousness, bulge, essence, pith, piece, substance, center, swelling, stub, part, gibbosity, content, kernel, protuberance, core, nubby, haecceity |
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