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"By a long shot" Quotes from Famous Books

... I know. Anyway, she's not single, by a long shot." And he laughed. "But, Lord, that cuts no great figger. People here don't stand on ceremony in those matters. Everything's aboveboard. Hands on the table until time to draw—then ...

— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin

... antique ladies with asthma struggle for an extra year or two of the veranda rocking-chair, and rickety old beaux sit about in Panamas and white flannels and listen to the hardening of their arteries. And I haven't quite finished with life yet—not if I know it—not by a long shot! ...

— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer

... Mis' Jarvis. I been a-noticin' she was kinder pernikity like an' fussy, an' kinder offish with me; but if it's the difference of knives or forks, the best payin' boarder ain't goin' to be hurt by me.' But, boys! I didn't know by a long shot what I was a-promisin'. I tell ye, the knife would keep goin' up the nateral way as it was used to; an' yesterday I didn't get no kind of a dinner, nor a breakfast this mornin', thinkin' of that pesky ...

— Uncle Rutherford's Nieces - A Story for Girls • Joanna H. Mathews

... minds, but not in the mind of Farmer Baldwin, by a long shot. If we're caught it will be ...

— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish

... "Not by a long shot. Bristow and the fellows who are still with him have not gone that way. As soon as we get behind that belt of post-oaks you see in advance of us, I intend to circle around and go ...

— George at the Fort - Life Among the Soldiers • Harry Castlemon