Anybody

Examples

• Anybody here seen anything of any such game? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But I don't allow anybody to ride over that turf. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is not as you think, that I have another in my mind, for I do not encourage anybody, and never have in my life. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• To anybody acquainted with the inhabitants of Egdon Heath the image would have suggested Eustacia Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Before another word could be said by anybody, a thundering knock at the street door startled us all. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She answered Sergeant Cuff's inquiry for the landlord, by telling him sharply that her master was up-stairs, and was not to be bothered by anybody. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Have the ghost of one appeared to anybody, Master Fairway? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• If you want to study anybody's convenience, it had better be Miss Halcombe's. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Is there anybody else I can send to you, or any other directions I can give before I leave, respecting what you would wish to be done? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Can anybody fail to make the inference what the practical result will be? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And as for the rest, they may be filled up by anybody. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Some days elapsed, and it appeared she was not likely to take much of a fancy to anybody in the house. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• So, by the same rule, if a woman's a party to a secret that might hang or transport her, I'm not afraid of her telling it to anybody; not I! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Upon my honour, I would rather never see you again, than pay my court to anybody who has behaved ill to you. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But Mr. Bruff reminded me that somebody must put my cousin's legacy into my cousin's hands--and that I might as well do it as anybody else. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This is not becoming in a sensible dog; anybody would think you were a silly young gentleman. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If Ma had been like anybody else, I might have had some little musical knowledge to begin upon. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Doesn't anybody work now? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Don't you think he would rather have his favourite old pupil near him, than anybody else? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And the natural consequence is, as anybody but a baby might have foreseen, that he prowls and wanders. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It very seldom happens that anybody--of any pretensions--any pretensions--comes here without being presented to me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• For, it is a remarkable fact in genealogy that no De Any ones ever came over with Anybody else. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We all agreed that it could not be offered to anybody else. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Here Mr. Guppy's mother fell into an extraordinary passion of rolling her head and smiling waggishly at anybody who would look at her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mother's not here, or the Marchioness--or anybody but me. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• At moments it seemed to him he did not care a straw whether Ursula or Hermione or anybody else existed or did not exiSt. Why bother! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The chances are they won't be able to wake anybody up there and if they do wake up they will be too sleepy to think. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If ever anybody's hair stood on end with terror, mine must have done so then. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• IS there anybody? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It was a torment to her when anybody spoke to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Editor: Murdoch