What is "put forth"

Usage examples of "put forth".

Indeed it was only very recently, by including the quantum effects in the cytoskeletons, that a team of French researchers had finally managed to put forth a plausible theory as to why general anesthetics worked, after all the centuries of blithely using them.

Before him towered a growth which he somehew recognized as the dedaim, though its bulb-shaped bole and elongated branches had put forth a matted-nass of dark, hair-like filaments.

She brought to me her little daughter Flaminia, a kind-hearted child with wonderfully bright eyes She put forth her mouth immediately for me to kiss, came willingly to me, and we were, in two minutes, old acquaintances and friends.

Before the attack by the birds of prey, which, according to him, had behaved like real condors, he had noticed an island on the horizon, and determining to reach it, if possible, he put forth all his knowledge and skill in the art of swimming, after having relieved himself of the most troublesome part of his clothing.

First therefore arose Jack of the Tofts, and began shortly to put forth the sooth, that there was come the son of King Christopher the Old, and that now he was seeking to his kingdom, not for lust of power and gain, but that he might be the friend of good men and true, and uphold them and be by them upholden.

More than once did he put forth the faint blossom of a look, which, in any other man, would have soon flowered out in a smile.

But from a certain nameless awe with which the mad assumptions of the mummer had inspired the whole party, there were found none who put forth hand to seize him.

Then two arms-if one could call them arms-likewise arose inch by inch, and we saw that the thing was not, as we had thought, a creature immersed in the liquid, but that the liquid itself had put forth this hideous neck and head, and was now forming these damnable arms, that groped toward us with tentacle-like appendages in lieu of claws or hands!

Nature seems for some days to be in doubt, not exactly able to stand still, not daring to put forth anything tender.

Let Him put forth His hand, and deliver His holy one from every snare.

Another school of thought put forth the so-called Technical Explanation.

I seemed to put forth a mighty mental effort, shaking off the icy hand of fear which held me inactive in my chair.

By giving England a year to relieve the place he virtually challenged that country to put forth all its strength and held out an inducement to it to make that effort, which internal dissension had hitherto prevented.