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Example sentences for "deal with"

  • Thus reasoning in the abstract, the mind cannot stop short of an extreme, because it has to deal with an extreme, with a conflict of forces left to themselves, and obeying no other but their own inner laws.

  • We have here to deal with a definite subject, and as the number of possible systems after all can be but small, therefore also they are themselves the lesser evil.

  • The only question therefore is, of what kind should these ideas be; and we think we have answered it if we say that they should be directed on those things which man has directly to deal with in War.

  • At any rate it was a concerned and preoccupied "God in the Car" I had to deal with in the next few days, unusually Zzzz-y and given to slight impatient gestures that had nothing to do with the current conversation.

  • They could not execute it: for in executing it they would have to deal with a refractory people.

  • They had obtained it with ease; for in obtaining it they had to deal with a subservient Parliament.

  • A fat, well fed, smiling, friendly man of business is of all parties to a bargain the most hopeless to deal with.

  • As long as I had him to deal with alone I felt certain of not losing my presence of mind.

  • You think you have found a lost woman to deal with, who lives here on sufferance, and who will do anything you ask for fear you may injure her in the opinions of the town's-people.

  • He has a man of brains to deal with, a man who snaps his big fingers at the laws and conventions of society, when he measures himself with ME.

  • I know how to deal with him, Laura--I have had some practice.

  • The Cossack, you know, is an awkward person to deal with.

  • No such word exists,' would be my reply, and thereupon he would seize me by the hair, for he was rather an awkward person to deal with.

  • With a splutter Vologonov said: "Truly you are a difficult subject to deal with!

  • And if William had won Ireland either by wisdom or by weapons, he would assuredly have known better how to deal with it than most of those who have come after him.

  • How was he to deal with such a brother, William asked of his wise men.

  • He had for seventeen years to deal with revolts on both sides of the sea, with revolts both of Englishmen and of his own followers.

  • The officers perceived that they had not to deal with a gentleman, and they treated him like a very peasant.

  • Milady in the course of the conversation twice or thrice bit her lips; she had to deal with a Gascon who played close.

  • Treville judged that he had not to deal with a fool, and changing the conversation, came straight to the point.

  • It is fortunate for you, although your name is Bernajoux, to have only to deal with an apprentice Musketeer.

  • At sight of the mustaches and the naked sword, the poor devil perceived he had to deal with a man.

  • And she answered: "So deal with him, my husband, as he has dealt with you.

  • And now I will put her in your hands, to deal with as I shall deal with you.

  • Most mighty Zeus, may I deal with him as I wish!

  • And there is one charge the judges do not hesitate to deal with, a charge which is the source of much hatred among grown men, but which they seldom press in the courts, the charge of ingratitude.

  • And her father said to Cyrus, "All these riches I bestow on you for a gift, and I put my daughter in your hands, to deal with as you think best.

  • Life has to deal with them at every turn.

  • At St. Agatha's she had been rather a difficult person to deal with.

  • Wharton, the head of the house, is a very good fellow, but slight and weak, and severe physical pain is the only way to deal with such a case; so I have asked Holmes to take it up.

  • Flashman, pushing in, "leave me to deal with him; we'll draw lots for it afterwards.

  • May He deal with you as you have dealt with me and mine!

  • Kutuzov swayed his head, as much as to say: "How is one man to deal with it all?

  • When the necessary number of copies of the dispositions had been prepared, an officer was summoned and sent to deliver them to Ermolov to deal with.

  • Tomorrow we shall have to deal with Kutuzov!

  • As if inflamed by the sight, he raised his arm and addressed the people, almost shouting: "Deal with him as you think fit!

  • And as if to prove that he had divined even the details of the scheme devised by his young friend, he added: "Besides, every one knows that a millionaire's business agent is anything but a pleasant person to deal with.

  • First of all, he must study the enemy's position--gain some knowledge of the men he had to deal with, find out exactly who the Marquis de Valorsay and the Viscount de Coralth were.

  • As regards mortals, however, if any of them is indulging in insolence and treating you disrespectfully, it will always rest with yourself to deal with him as you may think proper, so do just as you please.

  • As for the stranger, let us leave Telemachus to deal with him, for it is to his house that he has come.

  • Lastly, to deal with a very unimportant point, I observe that the Leipsic Teubner edition of 894 makes Books ii.

  • When, however, we saw him my poor men found him ill to deal with.

  • The woman understood by the timidity and undecided manner of the applicant, that she had a very unpracticed being to deal with, and she was emboldened to act accordingly.

  • If you wish to ensure my respect, or esteem, Mr. Thurston, it is necessary to deal with me in perfect sincerity.

  • Surly Joachim is difficult to deal with; is very positive now that he has declared himself: "In my house at least shall be nothing farther of that unblessed stuff.

  • But it was difficult to interfere directly; the native Prussian Raths were very jealous, and Poland itself was a ticklish Sovereignty to deal with.

  • The Bishop wanted nothing better, and saw at once he had another fool to deal with.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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