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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. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 184
1862
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 91

England - 1862 - 822 pages
...her chopfallen son the old lady afterwards recited the proverb that there are as good fish in tJu: sea as ever came out of it, and recommended him to...woman, and, whatever she felt on the subject, let no annoyance appear, and was ready with a grin for everybody, and maybe with a smart retort if any observation...
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Paul Jones : a Romance, Volume 1

Allan Cunningham - 1826 - 404 pages
...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...
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The Bijou: An Annual of Literature and the Arts, Volume 3

Gift books - 1830 - 342 pages
...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...
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The Penny Wedding

John Grant (artist.) - 1836 - 64 pages
...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...
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Notices relative to the Bannatyne Club: instituted in February 1823 ...

James Maidment, Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1836 - 310 pages
...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...
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Stories of the Sea

Frederick Marryat - English fiction - 1836 - 244 pages
...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...
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The Pirate, and The Three Cutters, Volume 1

Frederick Marryat - English fiction - 1836 - 204 pages
...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...
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Life and Correspondence of John, Earl of St. Vincent, Volume 1

Edward Pelham Brenton - Admirals - 1838 - 536 pages
...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,...
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The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance

Fashion - 1867 - 738 pages
...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,...
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Punch, Volume 128

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1905 - 516 pages
...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,...
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