An' if ever they broke their promise, they olez towd her th' truth, and owned to it at once.

'That is precisely, my son, what you ought to do if ever you are entrusted with the interests of a number of persons at once; and that you may be tempted to forget that the regiment you command, or the department you have to manage, is composed of men like yourself; and you should always put yourself, or those you love, in the place of each of them.'

If ever a lie were justifiable, it would seem to be when a pure woman's honor was at stake, and when a hero's happiness and power for good pivoted on it.

If ever any author deserved the name of original (says Pope) it was he: 'His poetry was inspiration indeed; he is not so much an imitator, as instrument of nature; and it is not so just to say of him that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him.

Concerts, dances, and private theatricals, in which Magdalen cut a great figure, winning even the praise of the professional manager, who begged her to call on him if ever she should require a real engagement, passed the weeks rapidly by.

I have had all in my own hands once; and if ever I am in the same position again, I will act.

One that will do nothing upon command, though he would do it otherwise; and if ever he do evil, it is when he is dared to it.

Aristocracy seldom, if ever, exists alone.

If ever Ferdinand staynd Katharines honour I was a party: yet in all your Campe Who dares step forth and call me ravisher?

"Jake," says he all at once, "where's your mother?" "Inheaven!" says I, all taken aback; and if ever I came nigh what you might call a little disrespect to your mother, it was on that occasion, from being taken so aback.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one.

If ever there was an insoluble problem in casuistry, it is that which Shakespeare has here chosen to present to us.

I also disapprove of children going about begging at Christmas; this practice is calculated to instil into the children's minds a principle of meanness not becoming the English character, and the money they get, seldom, if ever, does them any good.

"Say it again,say, that I may hear it,say, 'If ever I am man's wife, I will be thine,'say it, and I will go.

In the course of such weekly back and forth postal exchanges, Rajan asked for my reiteration that I would stand with them as one if ever the management acted funny with any of them in future.

During the more than three-and-thirty years of our married life I doubt if there was ever a time when the summons would have found her unwilling to go; rarely, if ever, a time when she would not have welcomed it with great joy.

If ever the sunlight of a gracious nature touched any youth, it rested on him; the unworthy and the trivial passed him by.

On the other hand, literary merit was never without its reward, for though, as far as we can discover, Charlemagne, wise in his generosity, seldom if ever gave more than one profitable charge at once to one man, yet those who distinguished themselves by talent and exertion, were sure to meet with honour, distinction, and competence.

Certainly, if ever a man found a guinea when he was looking for a pin, it is my good friend Professor Gibberne.

"If ever I forget what has passed here," she said to herself, "may Heaven forget me!" To her servants she had never seemed colder or haughtier than on this night, when she kept them waiting while she registered her vow.

The Executive Council is composed of men who, if ever they were well-intentioned, must be totally unfit for the government of an extensive republic.

It is a triumph of the poetic or artistic part of the author's nature over the merely political part, that he should have made even his type of the old feudal order which he execrates so bitterly, a heroic, if ever so little also a diabolic, personage.

Then, if ever, Irishmen might have run from a victorious and pitiless enemy, who having captured the French general and murdered, in cold blood, the hundreds of Killala peasants who were with his colors, were now come to Killala itself to wreak vengeance on the last stronghold of Irish rebellion.

In any event, it is what the newspapers used to call "important, if true," viz: "If ever you come into a place where fleas abound, cry Och!

Steele, also, had his fling at Collins, and thought that "if ever man deserved to be denied the common benefits of air and water, it is the author of 'A Discourse upon Freethinking'" ("Guardian," No. 3).