Charles Lamb was blessed with an intellectual palate as fine as Keats's, and could enjoy the savor of a book (or of that dainty, "in the whole mundus edibilis the most delicate," Roast Pig, for that matter) without pragmatically asking, as the king did of the apple in the dumpling, "how the devil it got there."

" "Just so; nor is dancing, if I know any thing about it; nor, for that matter, cards.

There was not a town within many miles, nor for that matter a regular camp where summer guests were entertained.

For that matter they dared not look at one another, but pressed on, their eyes riveted to the hills.

Immediately their purser went ashore to make inquiries, and purchase a lot of fruits that could be taken on the river voyage; though for that matter they might expect to get anything they wanted at various villages along the route.

For Paredes had been there recently; for that matter, might still be in the house.

She might have been two places, ay, three, for that matter.

" It is an interesting question why such should have been, and should still be, for that matter, the law of South Carolina, and why there should exist in that state a condition of public opinion which would accept such a law.

They are not at ease in a French garb,nor, for that matter, in any other than their own diaphanous, sun-tinted, vowelly Provençal, unless they could find their expression in some folk-speech, as the Germans say, that could utter things of daily life without euphuistic windings, without fear of ridicule for things of home expressed in home-words.

"I ain't agoin' ter; but I could,an' the hosses, too, for that matter.

"For that matter," he went on with a quick glance at her, "why don't you go with him?

For that matter, why not, while she had him under her hand, recruit Jimmy as an aid in the campaign?

No part of all the United Kingdom, and, for that matter, no part of the world, has played a greater part, in proportion to its size and its ability, than has Scotland in this war for humanity against the black force that has attacked it.

Such deeds are very well for a Spanish partidaor for that matter a sansculotte of the Faubourg St Antoinebut not for a soldier and a gentleman like me.

This is going to send your name echoing from sea to sea, reverberating through Europe, and thundering down through the ages to come; and yet you admit that the glories of the Mayors of London with 4,000,000 souls, of Berlin, Chicago, and Peking, with millions more, are so slight that you can't remember their namesor even to have heard them, for that matter.

It did not occur to me, or for that matter to any of us in the excitement of the minute, that they might be holding a consultation below, or might even have abandoned the idea of following, although I think now that must be the explanation, for what we did took more time than it takes to set it down.

"We could starve 'em out, for that matter," said Grim.

For that matter, my duty was to stand sentinel over that very cannon; and, if I have done the thing once, I have twenty times squinted along the piece, to see in what quarter it would send its shot, provided such a calamity should arrive as that it might become necessary to fire it loaded with real warlike balls.

" "Then you have struck soundings on the right coast, Madam," returned the tar, "as master Paul here, will say in the name of his father, no less than in that of the sweet lady his mother; not forgetting old madam his grandam, who is no fresh-water fish herself, for that matter.

SomehowI don't know how or why, or for that matter why notI burst into a violent peal of laughter.

What hit the old man hardest was the fact that he could not explain to his associatesthat he could not even explain to himself, for that matter.

In all this, he was right enough; and there can be no question that Socrates and his whole party, together with the Reef, and for that matter, the entire group, would have fallen into his hands, but for the timely arrival of the reinforcement.

SECOND WAITER Don't tell me: does not Hardcastle begin with an H? FIRST WAITER So does Hammond for that matter.

He wondered that his vanity could have made him overlook the fact that what he was about to do was as much the regular order in prosperous Saint X, throughout the West for that matter, as posing as a European gentleman was the regular order of the "upper classes" of New York and Bostonand that even there the European gentleman was a recent and rather rare importation.

According to what he told us, that was the title of the only opera Beethoven ever wrotean opera he could read, for that matter, the way I read the paper.