Things

Examples

• Women are certainly quicker in some things than men. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I'm frank and open; considering all things, it was very kind of you to allude to the circumstance--very kind and polite. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I had settled things with father and mother. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Mr. Beaufort's secret, people were agreed, was the way he carried things off. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I prefer unlucky things. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• That horse certainly did things for him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This growth and dying and reproduction of living things leads to some very wonderful consequences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In connection with the adoption of this lubricating system there occurred another instance of his knowledge of materials and intuitive insight into the nature of things. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Did you ever see any one who was kind to such things? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was in vain for Annie to protest that she was weary of such things. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• That is not the way things come about: we grow into a new point of view: only afterwards, in looking back, do we see the landmarks of our progress. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I want some money, you know, Aunt--some to buy little things for myself--and he doesn't give me any. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• You will set things going in a better way, I am sure. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• There were, in fact, but few things which Luttrell did not vote a tax on life, being one of the most dissatisfied men I ever knew. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

Typist: Silvia