Do we say real or reel

real 19493 occurrences

SEE MCBAINE, JAMES P. Cases and materials on rights in land, with an introduction to the law of real property.

End-of-course test in Real estate, selling and leasing.

Short course in spoken German; conversational training for real life situations.

Unbidden guests; a book of real ghosts.

The Seeming real (1943-1946)

The money he made he put out at interest on mortgage of real property, and it brought in about 4 per cent.

The tenants' wives and daughters allude with pleasure to the annual social gatherings at the mansion, and it is apparent that something like a real bond exists between landlord and tenant.

Those who would like to see the real working of an agricultural show such as this should contrive to visit the yard early in the morning of the opening day, some few hours before the public are admitted.

The real farmstead which it supplanted lies in a hollow at some distance, and is occupied by the head bailiff, for there are several employed.

With them it is genuine, real, unaffected: in brief, they have money, and have a right to what it can purchase.

This was very provoking, but, by this time, we were so much accustomed to have the true and simple account of our plans and intentions treated with civil incredulity, that we felt almost disposed to allow the frequent insinuations of our concealed political character to remain uncontradictedso useless were all our endeavours to satisfy the natives as to our real position.

Blood-relationship, including fosterage, was the only real and binding union; that larger connection known as the clan or sept, having the smaller one of the family for its basis, as was the case also amongst the clans of the Scotch highlands.

Theoretically, all members of a clan, high and low alike, were held to be the descendants of a common ancestor, and in this way to have a real and direct claim upon one another.

In one respect St. Patrick was less fortunate than his equally illustrious successor, Columba, since he found no contemporary, or nearly contemporary chronicler, to write his story; the consequence being that it has become so overgrown with pious myths, so tangled and matted with portents and miracles, that it is often difficult for us to see any real substance or outline below them at all.

"So I think," said Chiffield, delighted to speak his real sentiments this time; "though everybody is obliged to praise 'em, because that's the fashion.

This with a real smile, for he thought of the arsenic, and the immeasurable relief that it would afford him.

Her bonnet was knocked on one side, and the flowers were seriously disarranged, indicating a real case of distress.

In the month that followed the acquittal of Marcus Wilkeson, three real murders, a railway collision killing thirty persons, and a steamboat explosion almost as tragical in its results, occurred.

Of course, I can't explain what caused the motion on those occasionsif it were a real motion, and not a fantasy of the inventor's

Mr. Minford, aside from this absurd crotchet, may have possessed real mechanical genius.

Being still in the active pursuit of a sensible woman, he was moved with a real curiosity to see her.

Lyra Elegantiarum is a real, not a bookseller's collection.

Nothing of his own figures in this catalogue, and yet in a very real sense the whole is his.

This weakness of classification has run all through the series, and it is my real quarrel with it.

True goodness and real badness escape it altogether.

reel 339 occurrences

For naught can cheer the heart sae weel As can a canty Highland reel; It even vivifies the heel To skip and dance: Lifeless is he wha canna feel Its influence.

Let Whig and Tory all agree To spend the night in mirth and glee, And cheerfu' sing, alang wi' me, The reel o' Tullochgorum!

Shall we so sour and sulky sit, Wi' neither sense nor mirth nor wit, Nor ever rise to shake a fit To the reel o' Tullochgorum? May choicest blessings still attend Each honest, open-hearted friend; And calm and quiet be his end, And a' that's good watch o'er him!

May dool and sorrow be his chance, Wi' a' the ills that come frae France, Whae'er he be, that winna dance The reel o' Tullochgorum!

he who his unglad Task ever plies 'mid rotatory burnings, That round and round incalculably reel For wrath divine hath made him like a wheel

"I sell it in cloth atone dollar; in sheep atone, six bits; in reel moroccy, with gold toolin' attwo an' a half.

Sech sewin' is a reel labour o' love, an' I kinder hate ter hurry over it, because, as I was sayin', it means so much that I'd like ter say, but bein' ignorant don't know how.

I feel reel sleepy, too.

After the songs, the servants of the officers, who were Albanians, danced a Macedonian reel, in which they exhibited several furious specimens of Highland agility.

At night when the spinners brought their work to the big house I would have it to reel.

The reel was a contrivance consisting of a sort of wheel, turned on an axis, used to transfer the yarn from the spools or spindles of the spinning wheels into cuts or hunks.

It was turned by hand and when enough yarn had been reeled to make a cut the reel signaled it with a snap.

And the white clouds lazily drifting by, And the laughing stream as it runs along With the clicking reel like a martial song, And the father teaching the youngster gay How to land a fish in the sportsman's way.

On came the Saxons then, Fighting our Fenian men, Soon they’ll reel back from our piked volunteers.

Ye stars, more swiftly wheel, O'er earth's still breast; More wildly plunge and reel

But she gave no sign of hearing him; and seeing her reel backward into a chair, with pale lips and closing eyes, he hastened to summon Tulee.

How I wish that I had joined that merry dance on Christmas Day at Dunmore, and seen B. and R. performing their reel steps, and F. snapping his fingers!

To live at random, in the hurly-burly of business or pleasure, without ever reflecting upon the past,to go on, as it were, pulling cotton off the reel of life,is to have no clear idea of what we are about; and a man who lives in this state will have chaos in his emotions and certain confusion in his thoughts; as is soon manifest by the abrupt and fragmentary character of his conversation, which becomes a kind of mincemeat.

It was Isak's old idea to drain the bogs at Storborg and till the land there properly; the bit of a store was only to be an extra, a convenience, to save folk going all the way down to the village for a reel of thread.

"If you want to ketch good fish," said he, sententiously, to Young New York, whose hook persisted in baiting itself with his thumb,"if you want to ketch reel snorters, you must have a heavy line, heavy lead, and gimp tackle.

He makes a tremendous rush, and runs the reel merrily.

We gather the line through the rings in breathless hastethere is no time to reel upand

One night he discovered that my head was filled with stories of my favourite heroes, which I could relate with some measure of graphic talent, and after that I was obliged to reel off stories by the yard, making myself into a regular Sultana Scheherezade for his benefit.

A group of guards appeared with a hose-reel.

The tune was a jigging reel, and soon began to inspire the performer above.

Do we say   real   or  reel