 | Allan Cunningham - 1826 - 404 psl.
...spunks out of Captain Kidnapper's fifth rib," said Captain Corbie, for such was the leader's name, — " there's as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and as good fellows in this little fiend's pickling-pond of a Solway as sail the salt sea. Captain Kidnapper's... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1836 - 204 psl.
...stick to be found equal to it in the whole length of the Mississippi." " Bah ! man," replied Oswald, " there's 'as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and as good sticks growing as ever were felled ; but I guess we'll pay pretty dear for our spars when we... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1836 - 244 psl.
...stick to be found equal to it in the whple length of the Mississippi." " Bah ! man," replied Oswald, " there's as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and as good sticks growing as ever were felled ; but I guess we'll pay pretty dear for our spars when we... | |
 | John Grant (artist.) - 1836 - 64 psl.
...some fair lass, who would love him dearer than her life ; if he had been fond of her, there were as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and he could be at no loss to obtain the hand of a lass equally good, if not better than she was, in every... | |
 | James Maidment, Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1836 - 310 psl.
...never-to-be-sufficiently-lamented death of my Lord Dunfermling? It is a trite maxim, but true, that there is " as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it;" and Mr Lyoun's Teares, but for the morality in the fag end of them, might have been torn, or shed around... | |
 | Edward Pelham Brenton - 1838 - 536 psl.
...conclusion at once insulting to the navy and injurious to the service. We have a saying that " there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it ; " and Lord St. Vincent used to say that he would bring a flag promotion three hundred down the list of captains,... | |
 | 1867 - 738 psl.
...subject, and talked of " nescio quid nugarum," and made absnrd, proverbial remarks, " that there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it"; and that it didn't seem to affect his appetite much, nor spoil his shooting. But I knew, for all that,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 988 psl.
...world but a private gentleman, with plenty of money I dare say, but you don't care for that ; — and there's as good fish in the sea as. ever came out of it. I don't think much of him !" He is wonderfully better than you, thought Fleda as she looked in the... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1905 - 516 psl.
...mode of its treatment. Many fine themes have unfortunately been already appropriated, but there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and even an old theme, when furbished up and treated in a bright, crisp and thoroughly up-to-date style,... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick Fay - 1843 - 468 psl.
...there's an old adage she did not repeat, though I swear I thought once she was going to do so, viz., ' There's as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it !' and — ah, Fanny !" said he, as the affectation of this flippancy became too much for him, " I'ma villain... | |
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Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better. 
