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Example sentences for "cutty"

Lexicographically close words:
cutting; cuttings; cuttit; cuttlefish; cuttles; cutwater; cutworms; cuya; cuyas; cuyo
  1. Will Marshal is buried in Kirkcudbright Church, where his monument is still shown, decorated with a scutcheon, suitably blazoned with two tups' horns and two cutty spoons.

  2. He was sucking a cutty pipe, but seemed unable to extract any smoke from it.

  3. It was no doubt these cutty pipes which are referred to in one of the sporting books of Robert Surtees as the "clay pipes of gentility.

  4. But late at night, when a westerly wind with rain turns for me a neighbouring yew tree into an invisible surge, then it is the fortune of one who remembers such as the Cutty Sark to choose different ships and other times.

  5. Well," he replied, "there was the Cutty Sark.

  6. The Cutty Sark was in the direct line with the Elizabethan ships, but at the end.

  7. More than a fortnight later, being too young to remember that the little Cutty Sark had been one of the China tea clippers, I shipped the last half of the consignment in her.

  8. And now listened attentively as the longshoreman, his cutty pipe smoking in one knotted fist, his dinner pail in the other, his cargo hook slung to his burly neck, glowered down upon him.

  9. With Barber's cutty once more in his right fist, and with his mind veered to a fresh subject, Johnnie knew the crisis was past.

  10. He was then a man of great strength, rolling along, with an inch of cutty in his mouth and a butcher's basket on his arm.

  11. Cutty Stool, or, Creepie Chair, the seat of shame, stool of repentance.

  12. The poet relates the history of several of his best songs in this letter: the true old strain of "Andro and his cutty gun" is the first of its kind.

  13. Will Marshal is buried in Kirkcudbright church, where his monument is still shown, decorated with a scutcheon suitably blazoned with two tups' horns and two cutty spoons.

  14. Why, thought Michael, should not he himself be one day ranked as the peer of Cutty Jackson?

  15. Not in vain had those gallant three-quarters been smeared with mud and bruised by the boots of the surging Dulford pack; for the ball had been kicked on too far and Cutty Jackson, the School back, had fielded it miraculously.

  16. How Michael admired the exhausted players when they sucked the sliced lemons and lay about in the mud; how he envied Cutty Jackson, when the lithe and noble fellow leaned against the goalpost and surveyed his audience.

  17. It's better to sup wi' a cutty than want a spune.

  18. The rebuke on the cutty stool, like the penance in a white sheet in England, went out of use, and the circumstance is now a matter of "reminiscence.

  19. This was performed by the guilty person standing up before the congregation on a raised platform, called the cutty stool, and receiving a rebuke.

  20. Cutty means anything short, stumpy, and not of full growth; frequently applied to a short-handled horn spoon.

  21. He had a brunette on one arm, a redhead on the other, and a pint of Cutty Sark in his hip pocket.

  22. Somebody may come to kame your hair wi' a cutty stool.

  23. It's better to sup wi' a cutty than want a spoon.

  24. You no let cutty my Foot, so me no let cutty your Head; no be sadd, you have bumby grande *yam yam.

  25. You haven't been out with Cutty no more than I have.

  26. Me and Cutty had a sucker out, I tell you.

  27. Blythe Was She^1 Tune--"Andro and his Cutty Gun.

  28. The glance of the patient trailed from Cutty to the nurse and back.

  29. Karlov's man and the secret-service operative detailed by Cutty both made the same mistake--followed Kitty into the dry-goods shop and lost her as completely as if she had popped up in China.

  30. Still, it was possible Cutty was holding back until he could tell her everything.

  31. Though Cutty had known her father and mother intimately, Kitty was a comparative stranger.

  32. It struck her that Cutty knew a great deal more than Kitty Conover; and so far as she could see there was no apparent reason for this secrecy.

  33. Then Cutty admitted he did not know what he was.

  34. She ran out into the kitchen, to behold Cutty seated in a chair calmly smoking his infamous pipe!

  35. Cutty wanted Miss Frances out of the room.

  36. Cutty turned his head, to behold Hawksley, shaven, pale, and handsome, wrapped in a bed quilt and swaying slightly.

  37. As Cutty dropped she would fling herself upon the madman.

  38. It did not matter that this queer old eagle whom everybody called Cutty had promised to bring Stefani home.

  39. Had Cutty gone through life without looking at some woman as, last night, Two-Hawks had looked at her?

  40. Then robin turned him round about E'en like a little king, "Go, pack ye out at my chamber door, Ye little cutty quean.

  41. We'll shoot the Cutty Wren, says John the Red Nose.

  42. And quhere's the ring that I gied ye, ye little cutty quean, O!

  43. The thinker smokes in the intervals of work, impatient of ennui as well as of lassitude, and the ploughman, the digger, the blacksmith or the teamster, lights his cutty for the same reason.

  44. The Cockney, leaving behind him the regalias and meerschaums of the Strand, finds the wax-tipped clay-pipe in the parlors of Yorkshire: finds dhudeen and cutty in the wilds of Galway and on the rugged shores of Skye and Mull.

  45. Auld Jock smoked his cutty pipe, gazed at the fire or into the kirk-yard, and meditated on nothing in particular.

  46. Private McLean stood in the door, smoking a cutty pipe, and grinning with pride in the merry little ruffian of a terrier, who met the friendly advances of the soldiers more than half-way.

  47. Mr. Brown locked the gate, went sulkily into the lodge, lighted his cutty pipe, and smoked it furiously.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cutty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.