"To a T" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to a T. They sent to the Eastern village, and found out who Wang was. And Wang took his ox-whip and entered the house of ...
— The Chinese Fairy Book • Various
... dynamo machine fixed outside the mine, and run by a small rotary steam engine, shown in section and elevation, at a speed of 900 revolutions per minute. The current passes through a cable down the shaft to a T-iron fixed to the side of the heading. On this T-iron slide contact pieces which are connected with the electric engine by leading wires. The driver by turning a handle can move his engine backward or forward at will. The whole arrangement ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 417 • Various
... You could almost see him grow. And as I was never much of a society man, his quiet, friendly ways suited me to a T. For nearly two years we were as happy as we could be on that island. I had no business worries, for I knew my salary was mounting up at Dawsons'. We would see a sail now and then, but nothing ever came near us. I amused myself, too, by decorating ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells
... had, in which John was at last defeated; And "Yankee doodle" was the march To which his troops retreated. Young Jonathan, to see them fly, Could not restrain his laughter: "That tune," said he, "suits to a T, I'll sing it ever after!" Old Johnny's face, to his disgrace, Was flushed with beer and brandy, E'en while he swore to sing no more This—"Yankee doodle dandy." Yankee doodle—ho! ha! he! Yankee doodle dandy— We kept the tune, but not the tea, ...
— Poems • George P. Morris
... we were mistaken; the fellow evidently at once hit off our respective characters to a T; he saw that the lugger—under jury-masts and bearing other unmistakable signs of having been very recently in action—was a prize; no doubt judged the Indiaman to be a recapture; and—perhaps believing that, with these two prizes, the schooner would be very short-handed—quickly ...
— The Log of a Privateersman • Harry Collingwood
... Horace's famous couplet, Segnius irritant, etc., she was Horatian by the plain, hard, positive intelligence, which, strange to say, characterizes the judgment of her sex, when feeling happens not to blind it altogether. She gauged the understanding of the world to a T. Her marriage lines being out of sight, and in Italy, would never prevail to balance her visible pregnancy, and the sight of her child when born. What sort of a tale was this to stop slanderous tongues? "I have got my marriage lines, but ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... my mind in the heroic state it was then, I couldn't curb it down onto Ashes of Moses, or roses, or any thing else peacible. I felt that this color, remindin' me of two grand heroes,—Bismark, John Brown,—suited me to a T. There wus two wimmen who stood ready to make it,—Jane Bently and Martha Snyder. I chose Martha because Martha wus the name of the wife ...
— Sweet Cicely - Or Josiah Allen as a Politician • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
... hands with delight when his aunt had finished, and exclaimed, "Nothing could be better, Aunt Kate; it suits our hero Amos to a T. Yes, for he would suffer anything rather than get his liberty by doing or promising to do what he believed to be wrong. Thank you, dear aunt; I have learned a lesson which I hope I ...
— Amos Huntingdon • T.P. Wilson
... "You've hit it to a T. Now, what I want to know is this, can people keep up that kind of nonsense till they die of it? I've got a patient right now who's lost thirty pounds by it. She won't eat. She won't make an effort. She sits around smiling like an angel off on sick-leave, and the same as tells me I can't do ...
— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith
... found a cosey little nest of a house, just built, and clean and neat as a new pin, from top to bottom. It suited us to a T. And now came the next most important business—selecting furniture. My wife's ideas had always been a little in advance of mine. That is, she liked to have every thing of the best quality; and had the weakness, so to speak, of desiring to make an appearance. ...
— Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper • T. S. Arthur |
