But all this matters very little to us; because events analogous to those of which it speaks have happened not once only, but many times, and will happen often again.

No matter which explanation was the true one, no matter which keyed her temper toward him, Lanyard found himself liking the woman better, not as a woman but as another human being, than he had ever thought to.

It'sit's merely a matter of business, Susie.

We didn't always know beforehand, and I remember some dull afternoons with one or two members making long speeches about purely local matters, which didn't interest any one.

"It scarcely matters," said he.

[-22-] "Tell me now, you who write such things and do such things, what the excellent man ought to say in popular address and do in action: for you are better at advising others about any matter whatsoever than at doing your own duty, and better at rebuking others than at reforming yourself.

[Greek], saith he, [Greek] (foolish talking, or facetiousness): such facetiousness therefore he toucheth as doth include folly, in the matter or manner thereof.

What mean this groom and lozel friar, So strictly matters to inquire?

At that, of course, Hervey became exceedingly matter of fact.

As some men on this earth never leave their native village and never know or care for any matters outside of it, so in this little earth village, in the kinetic belt of the manasic globe, there are men who do not care to know anything which relate to matters outside its boundaries.

"I lived with Nebraskafor a while," she said, matter-of-factly, giving him a calm stare.

Behold him spring Blithe in the pride of the unwonted wing, And the dull matter that confined before Sinks downward, downward, downward as a dream!

These particulars are important, because they show that my father's rejection of all that is called religious belief, was not, as many might suppose, primarily a matter of logic and evidence: the grounds of it were moral, still more than intellectual.

He was surprised, simply enchanted, at the entire frankness of her recognition; she acknowledged openly that it mattered to her tremendously whether or not he was on intimate terms or flirting with little Miss Argles, or with little Miss anybody.

In half an hour we were back at an utterly matter-of-fact railway station, in whose cafe an utterly matter-of-fact and capable Frenchwoman gave us tea.

Now, this being made known to certain of the friends of Messer Guido, one of them said to him, 'Take care what you do; for if you contrive not matters discreetly, such relationship will beget scandal.

Throw hatchet at enemywhat matter what he saygood t'ing, bad t'ing.

But you were wise, my Robert, wise in time; And I, who set you far above humanity, High-pedestalled upon my lofty rhyme, Rejoice with you in your recovered sanity; To me I feel it would have mattered Enormously to see my idol shattered.

And she said in a voice evenly matter-of-fact, "That's nicer, isn't it?" He didn't succeed in producing anything audible in answer to that, but he began presently, and rather at random, to talk.

Through what cold depths of solitude her soul breathed faintly mattered little.

Privately she thought it would not have mattered so fearfully if just once in a while he had forgotten the ring.

It mattered not whether Barker had an iron of his own in the fireit mattered not what else he said which was not truethe two detectives knew that they had extracted from him a fact, the relative importance of which would be established later.

Yet, to the end of time, the vanity and credulity of women will lead them to lend credence to such statements, rather than look matters firmly in the face, with the eyes of common-sense and experience.

In my school-days we called such minor weekly or fortnightly matters as these, "reviews.

Fortunately, it all matters nothing to Poe now.