What is "was a thing"

Usage examples of "was a thing".

Don Pasquale declared that a payment under such circumstances was a thing unknown in Catanzaro, and I saw that to say anything more would be to run the risk of offending him.

That Domenica should think my improvisation quite a masterpiece was a thing of course: but what I sang, and how, I remembered not, and yet that the Madonna, Excellenza and the buffalo, were the poetical triad of the whole, I recollect distinctly.

They noticed the remains of Crake lying on the ground, but as they had never seen Crake when alive, they believed Snowman when he told them this was a thing of no importance –.

To him it was a thing of deadly import, and certainly no vision was ever fashioned more exactly like a dread reality.

Six months from the date of that nightmare-dream he was a prisoner in the hands of the Union forces, and the Confederacy was a thing of the past.

I don't believe there was a thing the matter with that automobile.

Carmichael explained--in the quiet, level-toned, steady manner of a man who knew his subject, and all its legal significance, which was a thing Miss Minchin understood as a business woman, and did not enjoy.

She had thought in that way to make her mother sorry, but she had learned that life was a thing thrust upon her and she could not leave it at her wish.

Well, just because there was a thing of substance underneath the rumor didn't make them magical.

All colors were brighter, background music of which he had been only dimly aware was suddenly piercingly lovely, the texture of the brocaded couch was a thing of joy, perfumes of flowers he had never known overwhelmed him.

The mood that had taken possession of him was a thing known to men and unknown to boys.