He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced I am done.
I am done.
Lucy was not only dressed for the day that had begun without me, but was made up and jewelried and perfumed and letting out spearminty breaths, smiling, too, happy and excited, and, well, normal—the last thing being the surprising part if you'd been there in the backyard with me not eight hours before.
[H]e went his way rejoicing—an eccentric, sun-browned, good-natured, athletic man, with no strong affection for anything except his rifle, and a predilection for relating whopping stories of his travels, and incidents of adventure which no mortal since the days of Baron Munchausen could have experienced under any possible circumstances. The word appears to be used here in the sense of a whopping lie.
whopping
whopping lie
O fine villain! A silken doublet, a velvet hose, a scarlet cloak, and a copatain hat! O, I am undone! I am undone! While I play the good husband at home, my son and my servant spend all at the university. — Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act 5, Scene 1.
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