Matter. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Matter


I’ll read you matter deep and dangerous. Shakespeare.—King Henry IV., Part I. Act I. Scene 3.	1
Why, you whoreson round man! What’s the matter? Shakespeare.—King Henry IV., Part I. Act II. Scene 4. (The Prince to Falstaff.)	2
1. What’s the matter, Furnish? 2. Nothing, sir; nothing’s the matter. Murphy.—The Way to Keep Him, Act II. Scene 1.	3
What’s the matter? Why, murder’s the matter! Slaughter’s the matter! Killing’s the matter!—But he can tell you the perpendiculars. Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act V. Scene 1.	4
Why, how you stand, girl! you have no more feeling than one of the Derbyshire putrefactions. Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act V. Scene 1.	5