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Example sentences for "easy thing"

  • It was no easy thing to lead enthusiastic Protestants on a crusade against Popery with the good wishes of almost all Popish governments and of the Pope himself.

  • It was no easy thing to subvert the English government by means of a foreign army without galling the national pride of Englishmen.

  • Not by any means an easy thing, as Reynolds supposes it.

  • It is not true that imitative art is an easy thing.

  • And I am under a very strong persuasion that Raphael did not think painting "naturally" an easy thing.

  • It was no easy thing to fill this office, and required that one should be well accustomed to it; for he spoke quickly, all in one breath, made no pause, and was impatient when obliged to repeat.

  • It had been an easy thing to tyrannise over poor Tom Halliday; but this man was a grave inscrutable creature, a domestic enigma which Georgy was always giving up in despair.

  • It had been an easy thing to invent an ancient aunt Sarah for the mystification of the astute Horatio; but Valentine Hawkehurst could not bring himself to tell Charlotte Halliday a deliberate falsehood.

  • The king opened the door hastily, and desired that a light should be brought--it was no easy thing to procure in this dismal, deserted village.

  • It would be an easy thing to forfeit even this appearance of freedom.

  • It was an easy thing to run down the steps and into the house-yard, and from this by a side-gate which I knew was never closed at this hour, to get into the adjoining alley.

  • Cat-Kaspar called them a pack of toadies, and said that it was an easy thing to crack jokes and laugh at an honest fellow who was not allowed to show what he could do.

  • He felt that Merriwell was right, but he realized it might not be an easy thing to solve the mystery of the island.

  • He explained that he could not afford the time to recover the boat by regular process of law, and said that it would be an easy thing to take it from the boys who were on board.

  • With a good bird gun and a dog, I presume it is an easy thing to bag clams around here?

  • Not an easy thing to do," he answered ruefully, trying to sort the jumbled lot of papers she had brought him, and beginning by laying the rolls of manuscript on the table back of him, as if disposing of them.

  • He had saved the commander's life; that was an easy thing to do compared with the possibility of hiding his contempt.

  • It is not idly that prayer has been called "the greatest task of the Christian man"; it will not be an easy thing, but a strenuous.

  • The victory over sin--no easy thing at any time--is another permanent feature of Christian experience.

  • Although it was no easy thing for a widow to make ends meet, I never allowed myself to know what repining or depression was, and so succeeded in gaining not only my daily bread, but many comforts besides from the beginning.

  • It was no easy thing to avoid being robbed and cheated by the less scrupulous travellers; although I think it was only the 'cutest Yankee who stood any fair chance of outwitting me.

  • It was no easy thing to clear the store, canteen, and yards; but we determined upon adhering to the rule that nothing should be sold after that hour, and succeeded.

  • A unanimous vote of a large City Council is, therefore, not an easy thing to obtain, and is in itself a great compliment.

  • It was not an easy thing to do, but to the surprise of my guests I stopped the wine and ordered cigars; this had the desired effect.

  • Such people become an easy prey to speculating lawyers and others, who find it an easy thing to whet their hopes, and procure money from them to make "primary investigations.

  • In England it is not an easy thing to draw away customers from an old house where the people can rely upon honest dealings; but Mr. Rogers was bent on doing Mr. Hague all the harm he could.

  • It is not an easy thing to search hurriedly through a thousand newspapers, for example, for material, and select and arrange the same acceptably.

  • It is no easy thing to get up early in the morning when one is used to sleeping until seven and eight, as Carrie had been at home.

  • It's no easy thing to go on your own hook here.

  • It is no easy thing to enumerate all the advantages of water carriage to a fruitful and commercial province.

  • By this trade being torn from those nearest connections, and transported to a distant land, it is no easy thing to describe the uneasiness and pain they must endure from such violence and banishment.

  • It is an easy thing," said I, "freely to give that which is no longer ours.

  • Why then," said he, "it should be an easy thing to find the servant.

  • It would prove no easy thing for me to penetrate unnoticed into the town of Pesaro, much less into the Sforza Court, where for three years I had pursued my Fool's trade.

  • It was an easy thing for me, knowing what I knew, to fill in the details which the courier omitted in ignorance from the story.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "easy thing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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