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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN
Then there was Wee Wo,—he was a little Chinese chap, and we used to send him down the chimneys to open front doors for us.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYL
The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE OPERAJOHN H. SWABY (AKA "SCRICI")
Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON
This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.
I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
TINTINNALOGIA, OR, THE ART OF RINGINGRICHARD DUCKWORTH AND FABIAN STEDMAN
His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN
Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
Let them open their minds to us, let them put upon permanent record the significance of all their intrigues and manœuvres.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
WORDS RELATED TO PUT ONE'S FOOT DOWN
- actuate
- adapt
- adjust
- arrange
- array
- bend
- bias
- call the tune
- condition
- determine
- distribute
- fix
- govern
- group
- incline
- induce
- influence
- lay down the law
- lead
- locate
- make willing
- marshal
- methodize
- motivate
- move
- organize
- predispose
- prepare
- promote
- prompt
- put
- put one's foot down
- put to rights
- range
- rank
- read the riot act
- regulate
- ride herd on
- set
- set in order
- settle
- shepherd
- stand
- sway
- systematize
- tailor
- tempt
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.