The 227 occurrences of about the size of it

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"Yes, yes, I reckon that's about the size of it.

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It did, in fact, comfort Lapham a little to find himself in the same boat with so many others; he smiled grimly, and said in his turn, yes, he guessed that was about the size of it with a good many people.

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"I guess that's about the size of it."

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"That's about the size of it."

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I'm confoundedly gone on you--that's about the size of it--and I'm just giving you a plain business statement of the consequences.

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"Well, that's about the size of it, I suppose.

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"Well, that's about the size of it."

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And that's about the size of it.

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"That's about the size of it, colonel," says Will.

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"That's just about the size of it," Charles said.

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"That's about the size of it," said Crimmins.

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Ransom at long range will be about the size of it-cash or crash.

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"That is about the size of it.

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for that was about the size of it, and we were soon too busy to think about much else.

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I'd never have been here if it hadn't been for that, I do believe; and many another Currency chap can say the same--a horse or a woman--that's about the size of it, one or t'other generally fetches us.

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"That's about the size of it."

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"About the size of it."

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"That's about the size of it," Hilliard admitted grimly.

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"One good swaller is about the size of it, Mr. Nolan."

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"I guess that's about the size of it."

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"That's about the size of it.

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Yes, that's about the size of it."

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That is about the size of it!"

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"That's about the size of it."

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"That's about the size of it," said Carlyle.

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"That's about the size of it," said Custer, leaning back in his chair easily with an approving glance at the young man.

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You've been diving down below the line of 'practical politics,' that's about the size of it, my boy"; and, stooping suddenly, he picked up the last ball.

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"That's about the size of it," I said.

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Key answered grimly and laconically: "That seems to be about the size of it."

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You've been diving down below the line of 'practical politics,' that's about the size of it, my boy"; and, stooping suddenly, he picked up the last ball.

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That's about the size of it."

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"That's about the size of it," McMurdo answered.

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"You put it in a rather homely fashion," returned Harley; "but, on the whole, that is about the size of it."

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"Well, that's about the size of it," Fulkerson admitted.

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"Well, that's about the size of it," Fulkerson admitted.

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That's about the size of it.

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'That's just about the size of it, mate,' agreed Harlow.

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"An' that's about the size of it.

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"That's about the size of it," McMurdo answered.

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Key answered grimly and laconically: "That seems to be about the size of it."

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Antitreating is about the size of it.

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If you're happy, you're happy; that's about the size of it.

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"I'm set in my ways, Ronny, that's about the size of it; I like to go tick-ticking along like a clock.

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Isn't that about the size of it?"

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"Well, that's about the size of it," Fulkerson admitted.

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That's about the size of it.

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"I might've learned this town well enough by now," he reflected, "to know that a bally minstrel show's about the size of it."

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I have a little money--just enough to give me a fresh start if I should lose out here, and--oh, well, I'm poor but honest; I suppose that's about the size of it."

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"That's about the size of it."

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"That's about the size of it," I said.

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That's about the size of it--they were like a lot of hounds on the trail.

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"That's about the size of it."

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That's about the size of it!"

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I told him that was about the size of it, and he would eat or die, and maybe he would die anyway, and just then a wicked-looking negro with a big oyster knife came to the table and looked ugly at dad and said, 'Have another dozen?' and dad said, 'Yes,' and then he began to eat as though his life depended on it, and I could hear the great wads of oysters strike with a dull thud on exposed places inside of dad, and before he got up from the table he had eaten them all, and he told the man we would be in again to lunch after awhile.

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They are his subjects, and he needs money, and he puts a price on their heads--that's about the size of it.

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They are his subjects, and he needs money, and he puts a price on their heads--that's about the size of it.

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They are his subjects, and he needs money, and he puts a price on their heads--that's about the size of it.

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"Yes, yes, I reckon that's about the size of it.

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Any critic of this writing will be justified in objecting that I did not probably formulate the idea in just these terms, but this is about the size of it, all the same.

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"That's about the size of it," said the captain, permitting himself a smile, in which the officer joined.

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Now is not that just about the size of it?"

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"That's about the size of it."

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The little man said, "I guess you've got about the size of it there"; and the manager laughed.

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"Yes," he said, "that is about the size of it."

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"Yes," he said, "that is about the size of it."

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"That's about the size of it," Kent admitted reluctantly.

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"Well, that's about the size of it."

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That's about the size of it.

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That's about the size of it.

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"That is about the size of it," admitted Marguerite, gravely.

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"That's about the size of it."

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"That is about the size of it."

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"I guess that's about the size of it," came the reply.

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"'That's about the size of it,' I says, 'if an Englishman and an American could ever understand each other.'

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"Well, that's just about the size of it, Jack.

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"That's about the size of it, lad, though in this case I couldn't find anythin' to be disgruntled with, however soreheaded I might be.

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"Well, Miss Anthea,--considering as he were--the best, good-naturedest, properest kind o' gentleman as ever was; when I tell you as over an' above all this, he could use his fists better than any man as ever I see,--him having knocked me into a dry ditch, though, to be sure I likewise drawed his claret,--begging your pardon, I'm sure, Miss Anthea; all of which happened on account o' me finding him a-sleeping in your 'ay, mam;--when I tell you furthermore, as he treated me ever as a man, an' wern't noways above shaking my 'and, or smoking a pipe wi' me--sociable like; when I tell you as he were the finest gentleman, and properest man as ever I knowed, or heard tell on,--why, I think as the word 'fond' be about the size of it, Miss Anthea mam!" saying which, Adam nodded several times, and bestowed an emphatic backhanded knock to the crown of his hat.

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That's about the size of it.

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"That is about the size of it."

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"That is about the size of it," said Kent; and the governor found his hat.

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'That's about the size of it.

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Well--I fancy that's about the size of it.

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Ain't that about the size of it, boys?"