Everything

Examples

• Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Everything that arose before his mind drifted him on, faster and faster, more and more steadily, to the terrible attraction. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• As in everything else, it has taken time to overcome the faults of the early trucks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• That she had chosen to move away from him in this moment of her trouble made everything harder to say, but he must absolutely go on. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I told you everything once before, and you were so good that I can't help coming to you again. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• No--let the new Hospital be joined with the old Infirmary, and everything go on as it might have done if I had never come. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And now uncle is abroad, you and Mr. Garth can have it all your own way; and I am sure James does everything you tell him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I think I must have tried about everything in those books. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• You have had everything, to make you happy, that could be given you. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Norfolk was what he had mostly to talk of: there he had been some time, and everything there was rising in importance from his present schemes. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• So convenient a thing it is to be a _reasonable creature_, since _it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Up in the top loft of the factory we stored those machines, and at night we put up the benches and got everything all ready. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Her lodgings were hard by; and they threaded through the crowd without, where everything seemed to be more astir than even in the ball-room within. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In everything else the etiquette of the day might stand the strictest investigation. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Everything was in its place and order as he had always kept it, the little fire was newly trimmed, and the hearth was freshly swept. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• And she is very poor--you know Mrs. Peniston cut her off with a small legacy, after giving her to understand that she was to have everything. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Every thing, that is different is distinguishable: and everything, that is distinguishable, may be separated, according to the maxims above-explained. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I have taken the house now: everything else can soon be got ready--can it not? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Everything, I believe, Fanny replied. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But it's no joke, you know--if she stays here all the autumn she'll spoil everything, and Maria Van Osburgh will simply exult. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Everything was, in short, as it should be on the approach of so considerable an event. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• As if you had anything to make you unhappy, instead of everything to make you happy, you ungrateful heart! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The cutting away when there's anything wrong, and the eating all the wittles when there's everything right; is that his branch? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I was determined that the law should have its way in everything. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Oh, the fellows evidently grabbed hold of everything they could get. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Soon your mother will be here, and then everything will be all right. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Everything was made to look as heavy as it could, and to take up as much room as possible. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He knows EVERYTHING, Amelia said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You have your own opinion about everything, Miss Brooke, and it is always a good opinion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Editor: Mary