Whatever

Examples

• Few people of common prudence will do THAT; and whatever she saves, she will be able to dispose of. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Still, whatever we believe or know of him, we had better not forget that some appearances are against him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Sherman paid no attention at all to the overture, but pushed forward and took the town without making any conditions whatever with its citizens. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I really see no prospect of throwing any light whatever on this extraordinary affair. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He said nothing whatever to me on the subject. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Whatever the old girl says, do. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I was soon able to call for bread and drink, or whatever else I wanted. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• And there must be no letter-scribbling to your cousin Hortense--no intercourse whatever. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Whatever women may be, I thought that men, in the nineteenth century, were above superstition. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Why any burglar should take such a thing passes my understanding, for it was only a plaster cast and of no real value whatever. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Whatever he might have heard against meought he not to have suspended his belief? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I have formed no conclusion whatever, my companion answered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The others were all outsiders, instinctively, whatever they might be socially. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We should accept our own lot, whatever it be, and try to render happy that of others. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He looked with smiling penetration; and, on receiving no answer, added, _She_ ought not to be angry with you, I suspect, whatever he may be. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Whatever might be its effect, however, she must stand the brunt of it again that very day. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• You seem to come like my own anger, my own malice, my own--whatever it is--I don't know what it is. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The rent of land not only varies with its fertility, whatever be its produce, but with its situation, whatever be its fertility. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Whatever is absurd is unintelligible; nor is it possible for the imagination to conceive any thing contrary to a demonstration. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He noticed that by holding two of the lenses in a certain position he obtained a large and inverted view of whatever he looked at. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Whatever he put on, became him less (it dismally seemed to me) than what he had worn before. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In short, whatever I knew, Biddy knew. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Whatever natural science may be for the specialist, for educational purposes it is knowledge of the conditions of human action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She knows nothing about any relative whatever. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Light or heavy whatever goes into the Shivering Sand is sucked down, and seen no more. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Had I nothing whatever to do with the matter? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• His lips parted, as if to speak: but he checked the coming sentence, whatever it was. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It plaited itself into whatever I thought of, as a bodily pain would have done. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I never knew Joe to remember anything from one Sunday to another, or to acquire, under my tuition, any piece of information whatever. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• From the very beginnings of civilization the little children of the poor had always been obliged to do whatever work they could do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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