'To whoever is strong enough to get hold and keep possession,sometimes one, sometimes another.

The supplanting way indeed seems the most curt and compendious way of bringing about dishonest or dishonourable designs: but as good design is certainly dishonoured thereby, so is it apt thence to be defeated; it raises up enemies and obstacles, yielding advantages to whoever is disposed to cross us.

"A hundred dollars to whoever saves my cat!"

When I said I'd give a hundred dollars to whoever would save Peter, I did not mean that any one should risk his life.

Philip also, "for the recompense of virtue and the punishment of crime," promises to whoever will deliver up William of Nassau, dead or alive, "in lands or money, at his choice, the sum of twenty-five thousand golden crowns; to grant a free pardon to such person for all former offences of what kind soever, and to invest him with letters patent of nobility.

At the age of six or thereabouts, the child ran away from Westminster schoolhe was always running away from schooland a reward of £20 and expenses was offered to whoever found him.

"I pity Lady Bute," Walpole wrote to Sir Horace Mann on January 27, 1761, "her mother will sell to whoever does not know her, all kinds of promises and reversions, bestow lies gratis and wholesale, and make so much mischief, that they will be forced to discard her in three months, which will go to Lady Bute's heart, who is one of the best and most sensible women in the world; and who, educated by such a mother, has never made a false step."

It is unavoidable that this interest should accrue to whoever it is that supplies the capital.

She appeared before them one day with a basket filled with plums in her hand; and said she would give her hand in marriage to whoever of them should guess the following arithmetical riddle.

The boy who cut the rope must have known when he did so that the result would be harmful to whoever rang the chapel bell this morning.

Hath the power to bind and loose in Christ's Church been indeed given to whoever can buy it with the wages of robbery and oppression?

And there were wagons from the shopsgreat trucks, carrying supplies, going along at a pace that racked their engines and their bodies, and that boded disaster to whoever got in their way.

Said reward will be paid to whoever will bring her to her master, No. 172 Barracks-street, or lodge her in the jail.

The above reward, ($10,) will be given to whoever will bring that wench to P. ABDIE.

He was scarcely thirty and in excellent health, he made plenty of money, he was fond of pleasure, and particularly fond of the ladies and had no reason to complain of bad treatment at their hands; in fact, if the truth must be told, he was ridiculously vain of his conquests among the fair sex, and was always saying to whoever would listen: "Ah, mon cher, I have met a woman!

These were worn at their religious dances from an idea that a spirit which was supposed to animate a temporary idol was fatal to whoever might look upon it while so occupied.

A stone in the highest part of the castle wall is pointed out to visitors, which is supposed to give to whoever kisses it the peculiar privilege of deviating from veracity with unblushing countenance whenever it may be convenienthence the well-known phrase of "Blarney.

It shall then belong to whoever can get it.

Despite the vigilance, the ramparts, the fetters, and the logs, they escape hourly and daily;at what risk is manifest from the regulations, by which three cannon shots always announce the disappearance of a convict, serving to warn the peasants, and call them to earn the handsome reward given to whoever arrests one of the branded fugitives.

Caesar put them beyond the pale of military and human law, and had all the neighboring peoplets and all the roving bands invited to come and pillage and destroy "that accursed race," promising to whoever would join in the work the friendship of the Roman people.

The two deputies made an attempt to prolong their stay at Amboise: but, "If before six to-morrow morning," said the king, "they be not gone, I will send some archers to take them and cast them into a dungeon for six months; and woe to whoever dares to speak to me for them!"

Is that universe improved or deteriorated by having myriads of garbled and misprinted separate leaves and chapters also created, giving false impressions of the book to whoever looks at them?

These have the constructions of the simple relatives, and the same rules hold about person and case: [Give it to whoever wishes it.

Then a question was called to whoever might be within hearing: "Who's the best vaquero in California?" "Jack Allen, the gringo!" shouted a dozen voices, so that every camp must hear.

In sentences like "This advice is free to whoever will take it," the word ending in "-ever" is the subject of the verb "will take," not the object of the preposition "to."