"As we say" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "An contraire, as we say in the Gay City, I'm going to make a point of letting him hear me talk like that! Adjust the impression that I fear any Goble in shining armor, because I don't. I propose to speak my mind to him. I would beard him in his lair, if he had a beard. Well, I'll clean-shave ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse
... correct view seems to be that 'many' is the A.S. manig, which was in old English used with a singular noun and without the article, e.g. manig mann many men. In the thirteenth century the indefinite article began to be inserted; thus mony enne thing many a thing, just as we say 'what a thing,' 'such a thing.' This would seem to show that 'a' is not a corruption of 'of,' and that there is no connection with the French word mesnie. Milton, in this passage, uses 'many a friend' with a plural ...
— Milton's Comus • John Milton
... about me seemed all young, or scarcely more than, as we say, in middle life. They speak less than the earth folk, and when they speak they utter very simple sentences, and seem very sincere. I often stood by little groups gathered at the corners of cross streets, ...
— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap
... to listen to us; for we are informed that Dareios gave you command to guard the bridge for sixty days only, and then, if he had not arrived within that time, to get you away to your own land. Now therefore, if ye do as we say, ye will be without blame from his part and without blame also from ours: stay the appointed days and then after that get you away." They then, when the Ionians had engaged themselves to do this, hastened back ...
— The History Of Herodotus - Volume 1(of 2) • Herodotus
... freedom from the passions is a great and divine thing, and progress in virtue seems, as we say, to consist in a certain remissness and mildness of the passions, we must observe the passions both in themselves and in reference to one another to gauge the difference: in themselves as to whether desire, and fear, and rage are less strong in us now than formerly, ...
— Plutarch's Morals • Plutarch
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