It alsoappears that a skilful artist executed a faithful delineation of thecuriosity, which was engraven on stone, and presented to the RoyalAntiquarian Society, and other learned bodies: that heart-burnings andjealousies without number were created by rival controversies which werepenned upon the subject; and that Mr. Pickwick himself wrote a pamphlet,containing ninety-six pages of very small print, and twenty-sevendifferent readings of the inscription: that three old gentlemen cut offtheir eldest sons with a shilling a-piece for presuming to doubt theantiquity of the fragment; and that one enthusiastic individual cuthimself off prematurely, in despair at being unable to fathom itsmeaning: that Mr. Pickwick was elected an honorary member of seventeennative and foreign societies, for making the discovery: that none of theseventeen could make anything of it; but that all the seventeen agreedit was very extraordinary.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'You see, Mr. Pickwick,' said the host in explanation of his wife'slament, 'that we are in some measure cut off from many enjoyments andpleasures of which we might otherwise partake.
Count Smorltork was busilyengaged in taking notes of the contents of the dishes; Mr. Tupman wasdoing the honours of the lobster salad to several lionesses, with adegree of grace which no brigand ever exhibited before; Mr. Snodgrasshaving cut out the young gentleman who cut up the books for theEatanswill GAZETTE, was engaged in an impassioned argument with theyoung lady who did the poetry; and Mr. Pickwick was making himselfuniversally agreeable.
Being a wery reg'lar gen'l'm'n, he din'd ev'ry day at the same place,where it was one-and-nine to cut off the joint, and a wery goodone-and-nine's worth he used to cut, as the landlord often said, withthe tears a-tricklin' down his face, let alone the way he used topoke the fire in the vinter time, which wos a dead loss o' four-penceha'penny a day, to say nothin' at all o' the aggrawation o' seein' himdo it.
"You have cut off the entail, my love.
The wide brim cut off the upper part of his face with ashadow that looked a little like a mask.
"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "Our prejudices seem to cut opposite ways," said Father Brown.
Good God!"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) His high, hard voice had been cut off in mid-air, and he stoppedstaring; the eye-glass fell out of his eye.