About the middle came the
lot of Atalanta; she, seeing the great fame of an athlete, was unable to resist the temptation: and after her there followed the soul of Epeus the son of Panopeus passing into the nature of a woman cunning in the arts; and far away among the last who chose, the soul of the jester Thersites was putting on the form of a monkey.
Republic
wrote to their lawyer in New Orleans, who attached the real estate (these two articles and a lot of plantation hands formed the most valuable part of it), and wrote word to that effect to New York.
Skeggs is busy and bright, for a lot of goods is to be fitted out for auction.
Uncle Toms Cabin
He's a lazy sort of chap, hates work, and I guess he only got the job because his uncle had got a lot of shares in the business.
I was taken prisoner by one of those chaps, carried off to their beastly village and very nearly murdered by a chap who seemed to be a cross between an executioner and a high-priest, and who kept dancing round me, singing a lot of rot and pointing a knife at me.
A Millionaire of Yesterday
You're one of a
lot of impostors that are the worst
lot of all the lots to be met with.
Little Dorrit
He didn't sleep much, he was in such a sweat to get in there and find out the mystery about Phillips; and moreover he done a
lot of guessing about it all night, which warn't no use, for if you are going to find out the facts of a thing, what's the sense in guessing out what ain't the facts and wasting ammunition?
Tom Sawyer Detective
"What a lot of those Frenchies were taken today, and the fact is that not one of them had what you might call real boots on," said a soldier, starting a new theme.
"Hark at them roaring there in the Fifth Company!" said one of the soldiers, and what a lot of them there are!"
War and Peace
"Oh, how pretty!--and what a lot of trees and grass all around it!
Just as it is when the PRETTY hair-ribbons come in the barrels after a lot of faded-out brown ones.
Pollyanna
China's over there, an' in between's a mighty
lot of salt water that's no good for farmin' purposes."
The Valley of the Moon
The Shepherdsons and Grangerfords used the same steam- boat landing, which was about two mile above our house; so sometimes when I went up there with a
lot of our folks I used to see a
lot of the Shepherdsons there on their fine horses.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"There's a
lot of work to do here!" he said once, looking about quite exultantly.
Secret Garden
"I've been thinking a
lot of our talk," he began, "and I've got an idea I'd like to give it a flutter.
Burning Daylight