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Definition of Ruttiest
1. rutty [adj] - See also: rutty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruttiest
Literary usage of Ruttiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1863)
"... agonizing ride that the poor fellows had to endure, over twenty-two or
twenty-three miles of the roughest and ruttiest road in the Southern Confederacy. ..."
2. Southern History of the Great Civil War in the United States by Edward Alfred Pollard (1863)
"... agonizing ride that the poor fellows had to endure, over twenty-two or
twenty-three miles of the roughest and ruttiest road in the Southern Confederacy. ..."
3. The Preacher, His Life and Work by John Henry Jowett (1912)
"We are to find flowers of divine mercy, forget- me-nots of heavenly grace, growing
in the heaviest and ruttiest roads. We are to go into homes where sorrow ..."
4. A Pagan of the Alleghanies by Marah Ellis Ryan (1891)
"I am just one of the ruttiest of the people who always drive their wheel of life
through the ruts. If I were rich, I would be one of the fashionable rich; ..."
5. Twice Captured: A Record of Adventure During the Boer War by Robert Francis St. Clair Erskine Rosslyn (1900)
"... traction- engines, big guns, and ammunition waggons, over the ruttiest and
worst of roads, till I turned into St George's Street and found civilisation. ..."
6. Sport and Travel Papers by Henry Melladew (1909)
"Then given the worst, the ruttiest, most holey and stony road, and as I said
before your liver will have a doing over those seventeen miles which it is ..."
7. Leaves from a Journal in the East, December, 1899 by Julia Smith (1901)
"The way, only 8£ miles, lay over the ruttiest of roads I have ever been on, and
it was difficult to avoid the bullock carts and crowds of natives hurrying ..."
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