Mattered
[mætəd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Matter
Checker: Sherman
Examples
- If he had kept true to that clasp, death would not have mattered. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She accepted it without remark, nothing mattered to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It mattered little, as I thought. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And what's so funny, she used to be all for the children--nothing mattered, nothing whatever mattered but the children. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yet of course, she cared a great deal, outwardly--and outwardly was all that mattered, for inwardly was a bad joke. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What mattered was the great social productive machine. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When these things of the ancient régime had vanished, it seemed as if they had never mattered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Human or inhuman mattered nothing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What mattered was the pure instrumentality of the individual. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A Pussum was all right in her way, but she was an exceptional case, and even she mattered extremely little. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Nothing else mattered. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I was much disconcerted, but I reflected that if the main point were gained, it mattered little how strangely he perverted everything leading to it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If they had only left me alone and told me nothing about it, it would have mattered much less. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Really, if they had NOT met, and NOT married, and not lived together--it wouldn't have mattered, would it? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But what mattered that in the present society? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But from the point of view of the surviving mammalian life of the Miocene, they mattered profoundly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It seemed to Ursula as if Birkin had gone out of her for the time, he had lost his significance, he scarcely mattered in her world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He knew that her criterion was the only one that mattered. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Whether the company was a success or a failure mattered not to him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A thousand lives, a thousand deaths mattered nothing now, only the fulfilment of this perfect ecstasy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Checker: Sherman