well done

• “Thence to my case-maker for my stone case, and had it to my mind, and cost me 24s., which is a great deale of money, but it is well done and pleases me.”

  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Aug/Sep 1664

• “The video recreations of silent movies, with titles like The Duelling Cavalier, are also exceptionally well done by Ian William Galloway.”

  The Guardian: Singin' in the Rain – review

• “Leave your complaints, said Sir Bors, and first revenge you of the death of Sir Gawaine; and it will be well done that ye see Sir Gawaine's tomb, and secondly that ye revenge my lord Arthur, and my lady, Queen Guenever I thank you, said Sir Launcelot, for ever ye will my worship.”

  Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 2

• “My ministerial colleague, Senator Robert Hill, our Ambassador for the Environment and the entire Australian negotiating team deserve our heartfelt congratulations for a job well done both for Australia, and for the global environment.”

  Downer hails Australian diplomacy in Kyoto outcome

• “I patted myself on the back for a job well done and mentally started preparing myself for the admiration and accolades of my oft-critical family.”

  Simon & Schuster: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters

• “This L100, I think, nearly clears off for me the outlay of the second French Revolution; an ill-printed, ill-conditioned publication, the prime cost of which, once all lying saved from the Atlantic whirlpools and hard and fast in my own hand, it was not perhaps well done to venture thitherward again.”

  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I

• “That was the defect of l'Education sentimentale, about which I have so often reflected since, asking myself why there was so general a dislike of a work that was so well done and so solid.”

  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

• “Old Bronn has translated my book, well done also into German, and his well-known name will give it circulation.”

  Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences

• “At last parted, and my wife and I by coach to the Opera, and there saw the 2nd part of "The Siege of Rhodes," but it is not so well done as when Roxalana was there, who, it is said, is now owned by my Lord of Oxford.”

  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1662

• “We congratulate all those men and women who served with the IMPT for a job well done in successfully supporting home-grown efforts to end ethnic conflict in Solomon Islands especially through the collection and containment of illegally held weapons," said Mr Downer and Mr Goff.”

  Praise for International Peace Team in Solomon Islands - Joint Media Releases from the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs

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