...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....

...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...

...look for 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,...

...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...

...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...

...so, cousin Charlton!" said Fleda. " But seriously," said Charlton, " I think you had better call him to account. He is very suspicious lately. I have observed...think much of him !" He is wonderfully better than you, thought Fleda as she looked in the young gentleman's face for a second, but she said nothing....

...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...

...habits was unchanged ; and moreover that parting interview with Mr. Whitmore had been a sore trial. " There's as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it," she had said to herself, and Miss Coppock had come over again, and hnd praised her warmly for her wisdom...

...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...

...It will never do, Mr. Melville, to let all the pretty girls be engaged, though to be sure they say there's as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it ; and any young lady, I dare say—" Melville was now thankful to observe that they must part company,...