"Much as" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... murder, and the law wouldn't stand murder. It made short work of the experimenter—and of his family, too, if he murdered somebody who belonged up among the ornamental ranks. If a commoner gave a noble even so much as a Damiens-scratch which didn't kill or even hurt, he got Damiens' dose for it just the same; they pulled him to rags and tatters with horses, and all the world came to see the show, and crack jokes, and have a good time; and some of the performances of the best people present were as tough, and ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... themselves, and were ready for pursuit, the Saxons were far away, no less than 200 of the Danes having been slain or trampled to death, while of Edmund's band not one had received so much as ...
— The Dragon and the Raven - or, The Days of King Alfred • G. A. Henty
... is the case; but when electricity is generated and sent over the wires, the natural current flows in both directions—that is, it goes in one direction as much as in the other." ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island • Roger Thompson Finlay
... the more superficial ones—his later practice—there is not much change to be noted. We have the medical life exhibited by Bob Sawyer and his friends; the legal world in Court and chambers—judges, counsel, and solicitors—are all much as they are now. Sir Frank Lockwood has found this subject large enough for treatment in his little volume, "The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick." It may be thought that no judge of the pattern of Stareleigh ...
— Pickwickian Manners and Customs • Percy Fitzgerald
... advised the President to yield to the metropolitan demand, and himself drew up an Executive order to that effect. The seizure of Harper's Ferry and Norfolk and the threatened attack upon Washington greatly disturbed him, but not so much as the wild cry of the ardent and impulsive which soon followed of "on to Richmond" with ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various
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