That's a lee wi' a lid on, / And a brass handle to tak ho'd on. Pr.
That's my good that does me good. Pr.
That's the best gown that goes up and down the house. Pr.
That's the humour of it. Henry V., ii. 1.
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly: 25 he wants to make sure o' one fool as'll tell him he's wise. But there's some men can do wi'out that—they think so much o' themselves a'ready—an' that's how it is there's old bachelors. George Eliot.
The abandoning of some lower end in obedience to a higher aim is often made the very condition of securing the lower one. J. C. Sharp.
The abiding city and post at which we can live and die is still ahead of us, it would appear. Carlyle.
The absent one is an ideal person; those who are present seem to one another to be quite commonplace. It is a silly thing that the ideal is, as it were, ousted by the real; that may be the reason why to the moderns their ideal only manifests itself in longing. Goethe.
The absent party is still faulty. Pr.
The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the 30 wildest charms of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star—she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he. Emerson.