"Real thing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... up and glanced over it as I sat there; but, you know, Mag, the heavy-weight plays never appealed to me. I don't go in for the tragic—perhaps I saw too much of the real thing ...
— In the Bishop's Carriage • Miriam Michelson
... before us is this," he said, "to get into touch with Robert Redmayne, or his ghost. There are two sorts of ghost, Mark; the real thing—in which you don't believe and concerning which I hold a watching brief; and the manufactured article. Now the manufactured article can be quite as useful to the bulls as ...
— The Red Redmaynes • Eden Phillpotts
... similar guise. The results in either case vary as the method employed. Mrs. Gamp, the outcome of a single observation, is a type certainly, but exaggerated and "founded on fact" rather than true to life. "The Suburbanite" (see p. 24), though an equally imaginary portrait, is the real thing—the absolute personification of a ...
— Frank Reynolds, R.I. • A.E. Johnson
... man I seem. My health will not be good for the next few weeks, I'm sure of that. But I'll be a model workman, neat and conscientious with just a suspicion of dash where dash is needed. He knows the real thing when he sees it, and there's not a fellow living more alive to shams. I won't be a sham. I'll ...
— Initials Only • Anna Katharine Green
... I came in upon a very happy little scene. It might be only pretence, but it looked uncommonly like the real thing." ...
— The Marriage of Elinor • Margaret Oliphant
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