'I tell you-all I seen him deal hisself four aces.'
"It was your deal all right, and you-all dole them right, too.
Burning Daylight
Ryde insisted strongly on the doctrines of the Reformation, visited his flock a great deal in their own homes, and was severe in rebuking the aberrations of the flesh--put a stop, indeed, to the Christmas rounds of the church singers, as promoting drunkenness and too light a handling of sacred things.
He didn't go into deep speritial experience; and I know there s a deal in a man's inward life as you can't measure by the square, and say, 'Do this and that 'll follow,' and, 'Do that and this 'll follow.' There's things go on in the soul, and times when feelings come into you like a rushing mighty wind, as the Scripture says, and part your life in two a'most, so you look back on yourself as if you was somebody else.
Adam Bede
"You see," he said to John, "I am leaving a great deal behind; my mother and Betsy, and you, and a good master and mistress, and then the horses, and my old Merrylegs.
Joe's father would often come in and give a little help, as he understood the work; and Joe took a great deal of pains to learn, and John was quite encouraged about him.
Black Beauty
One hundred and twenty-five dollars is a great
deal of money," he added, aloud, "and the interest, at 7 per cent, will come to $1.75.
Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief
I have received a great
deal of politeness--some of it really most pressing, and I have experienced no drawbacks whatever.
Bundle of Letters
There was a delightful history of Ohio, stuffed with tales of the pioneer times, which was a good
deal in the hands of us boys; and there was a book of Western Adventure, full of Indian fights and captivities, which we wore to pieces.
My Literary Passions
Weitbrecht-Rotholz belongs to that school of historians which believes that human nature is not only about as bad as it can be, but a great
deal worse; and certainly the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in representing the great figures of romance as patterns of the domestic virtues.
Moon and Sixpence
I cannot remember the time when I did not know a great
deal that she has not the least notion of yet.
Mansfield Park
"And yet I have heard that there is a great
deal of wine drunk in Oxford."
Northanger Abbey
His idea was to practise at the Bar (he chose the Chancery side as less brutal), and get a seat for some pleasant constituency as soon as the various promises made him were carried out; meanwhile he went a great
deal to the opera, and made acquaintance with a small number of charming people who admired the things that he admired.
Of Human Bondage
Still, beside, or only a little way beneath, such a picture of passing fashion, what Steele and his fellows really
deal with is the least transitory aspects of life, though still merely aspects--those points in which all human nature, great or little, finds what it has in common, and directly shows itself up.
The Guardian
Aynesworth said nothing, but his face expressed a good
deal.
The Malefactor