Anything
['enɪθɪŋ] or ['ɛnɪ'θɪŋ]
Definition
(n.) Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything.
(n.) Expressing an indefinite comparison; -- with as or like.
(adv.) In any measure; anywise; at all.
Editor: Seth
Examples
- Well, you're not geese, you're swans--anything you like, only do, do leave Miss Sedley alone. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Anybody here seen anything of any such game? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And I'm bound to say Lily DOES distract it: I believe he'd marry her tomorrow if he found out there was anything wrong with Bertha. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I beg you will not do anything of the kind, Tertius, said Rosamond, looking at him with something more marked than usual in her speech. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He has never done anything to me, my dear. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Yes, he said, I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner. Plato. The Republic.
- Did you ever see anything so beautiful? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I've heard him say he's a capital one,' replied Mr. Pickwick, 'but I never saw him aim at anything. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was not, however, till the invention of telegraphs that anything approaching to the means of holding regular communication by signals was attained. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- If anything could make her comfortable that would. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Is there anything further which I can explain, Dr. Trevelyan? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- To her, the handwriting itself, independent of anything it may convey, is a blessedness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- What more he was, or what else he had in him, if anything, let him show for himself. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I would do anything for her, bear anything for her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Is it anything about a picture? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Edited by Guthrie