"On the face of it" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seems absurd on the face of it, yet Seneca and Martial tell it (both with different tendencies) and Suidas, Albino and other writers repeat it without critical analysis. These writers who are unreliable in culinary matters anyway, claim that Apicius ...
— Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome • Apicius
... the landlord answered ominously. Then, turning to the bewildered attorney, 'For you, sir,' he continued, 'if you have anything to say, be good enough to speak. On the face of it, this is a dirty trick you ...
— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman
... thing we have struck," said George; "we had better make the most of this." Which was good advice, on the face of it. ...
— Three Men on the Bummel • Jerome K. Jerome
... that this man could be sane and sensible to make such a proposition as he had put forward; and doubtless it was done to clothe piracy in a more seemly garb than it usually wears. It was simply ridiculous on the face of it, with no imaginable foundation for the ...
— Asiatic Breezes - Students on The Wing • Oliver Optic
... Vandemeyer had worried me when Julius told me about it. On the face of it, it seemed that he or Sir James must have done the trick. But I didn't know which. Finding that photograph in the drawer, after that story of how it had been got from him by Inspector Brown, made me suspect Julius. Then I remembered that it ...
— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie
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