Post and Kirby, you know, aren't so much of a muchness but what you could beat 'em with a little practice."
"The Crimson Sweater"
Ralph Henry Barbour
And he smote one of them, whilst his mate of Marw smote another and they cried out at them and buffeted them on their neck-napes: whereupon the robbers left that which was with them of loot and ran away; and indeed their wits took flight for terror and they ceased not running till they came forth of the Magians' mortuary-ground and left it a parasang's length behind them, when they halted, trembling and affrighted for the muchness of that which had befallen them of fear and awe of the dead.
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
I guess there is a good deal of romance about their old times; and that, if we knowed all, their old lairds warn't much better, or much richer than our Ingian chiefs; much of a muchness.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton