Ever

Examples

• Father's a sweeter singer than ever; you'd never have forgotten it, if you'd aheard him just now. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And particularly, whether they were ever admitted as members in the lower senate? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• There are some points which are as dark as ever. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Why were we ever told to bring navy revolvers with us if we had to be protected at last by this infamous star-spangled scum of the desert? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I now take my farewell of your ladyship, and assure you that there's no danger of your ever being waited on by me again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Carruthers has got a trap, and so the dangers of the lonely road, if there ever were any dangers, are now over. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Did you ever see any one who was kind to such things? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Did you ever see anything so beautiful? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Mr Sampson murmured that this was the sort of thing you might expect from one who had ever in her own family been an example and never an outrage. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mauretania: Yes, next Wednesday as ever is. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He was, in fact, the most agreeable young man the sisters had ever known, and they were equally delighted with him. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Races came and went, species passed away, but ever new species arose, more lovely, or equally lovely, always surpassing wonder. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I seem to have been doing that ever since I knew you, judging from your frequent mention of the fact. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Nobody can ever forget them. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. Jane Austen. Emma.
• You'll wish you had gone, like a good thing, for ever and ever so long, if you don't go. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Look at him, the old man would say, nudging his neighbour with a delighted purple face, did you ever see such a chap? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There were, in fact, but few things which Luttrell did not vote a tax on life, being one of the most dissatisfied men I ever knew. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Nobody has ever been served so! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• This bank was more liberal than any other had ever been, both in granting cash-accounts, and in discounting bills of exchange. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• No one ever needed your advice more than I do. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick, as he got into bed, 'I have made one of the most extraordinary mistakes to-night, that ever were heard of. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But you won't ever leave me for some one else. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• There's ever so many people in the river. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I believe you were glad we danced no longer; but I would have given worldsall the worlds one ever has to givefor another half-hour. Jane Austen. Emma.
• His face was very handsome--the handsomest, thought D'Arnot, that he had ever seen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• American youths to-day are given, if of a mechanical turn of mind, to amateur telegraphy or telephony, but seldom, if ever, have to make any part of the system constructed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He always told himself that and it was one of the last true ideas that was left to him that had ever been his own. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If you ever say less than this, you will be guilty of deliberate falsehood to me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Don't ever admit that. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Editor: Paula