...thing of the sort. Curaijoa is an old hound, no doubt of that, but, after all, Miss Amalia is well, there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. You could never haveseriously meant to marry her, you know, so it's as well to be out of it at once....

...him, in an underhand kind of way; that is, I exerted what little influence I could boast of; and as there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, I was able to introduce my friend to another — market, we'll call it, and so there was no harm done....

...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...

...yourself now. That's no like you at all. Hout, tout, mem, that's no fair — no like yoursel, Mrs Fairlie. There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out o' it. That's paying the living but a puir compliment, especially him who, — report says, — is...

...another luckie, then, and the sooner the better," answered the Stranger, " take heart, man, there's as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it."— " And that's true too, though the Deil himsel' spak it," rejoined the Piper, " I'm thinkin', Bauldie, that...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...this was a 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,...