Citations:straight cut
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English citations of straight cut
- Thomas Hardy, THE ROMANTIC ADVENTURES OF A MILKMAID, Project Gutenberg edition, Chapter 1:
- By far the nearest way was by getting over a fence, and crossing the private grounds of a picturesque old country-house, whose chimneys were just visible through the trees. As the house had been shut up for many months, the girl decided to take the straight cut.
- 2022 November 22, Max Brand, Gunman's Gold, DigiCat:
- "He was heading for the Willejee Mountains, he said, and he intended to take the straight cut across the desert. Mind you, he started before us, but we didn't pass him on the way. And yet he must have been later. He must have been hours and hours later, [...]"