They may be regarded as the present postulates of a new science of the whys and wherefores separating and setting apart, as so recognizably distinct, those peregrinating chemical mixtures: men and women.

The gossips wanted to know all the whys and wherefores, but the boy kept his room in the hotel, or only walked out when accompanied by Ethel or one of the three nieces.

His mother therefore wept with unmeasurable tears, and said: Alas, my son, wherefore sent we thee to go this pilgrimage?

But the night was as troublesome to him as the day; wherefore, instead of sleeping, he spent it in sighs and tears.

It is impossible to tell the whys and wherefores of sea-prejudices.

A thousand whys and wherefores made her anxious, but the fat German had been won over by Kershaw's visions of untold gold, held tantalisingly before his eyes.

" I might, indeed, go into the character of Anna and the whys and wherefores of her story; but there is curiously little that is strange or unusual about it.

Indeed this country is very mountainous and excessively cold, and has very little plain ground, wherefore these nations had no tillage, but dwelt in tents, which were destroyed by the Tartars.

He hadn't grasped the whys and wherefores of all this confusion, until he caught sight of a little long-legged dog who ran over the ice with a goose in his mouth.

'Twere labour lost in this material age, When school boys trample on the Inspir'd Page, When coblers prove by syllogistick pun The soal they mend, and that of man are one; 'Twere waste of time to check the Muses' speed, For all the whys and wherefores of their creed; To show how prov'd the juices are the same That feed the body, and the mental frame.

She may not bother about the whys an' wherefores, but she's got the statistics.

Many of the children solved questions readily in the compound rules, and several of them in Practice, giving the different parts of the pound, shilling, and penny, used in that rule, and all the whys and wherefores of the thing, with great promptness.

Many of the children solved questions readily in the compound rules, and several of them in Practice, giving the different parts of the pound, shilling, and penny, used in that rule, and all the whys and wherefores of the thing, with great promptness.

I was particularly struck with the very clear manner in which the lad under examination replied to the questions put to him, and I began to suspect it was merely something he had learnt by rote; but the professor dodged him about in such a heartless manner with his "whys" and his "wherefores," his "how do you knows" and "how do you proves," that I quite trembled for the victim.

" "And you wanted me to come and tell you all the whys and wherefores?"

She studied the analysis of the atmosphere of cells, the properties and waste of wheaten flour, the cost of clothing to the general government, the whys and wherefores of crime and evil-doing; and it was not long before there was generated within her bosom a fine and healthy ardor to emulate this practical and courageous pattern.

She told him the proper manner of doing it, and he followed her directions; but he was much troubled that he could not understand the whys and wherefores himself.

Your roses were crushed; N'importe wherefores and whys.

Facts and fancies, book 4; Whys and wherefores, book 5; Scouting through, book 6.

Jessie Louise <pb id='137.png' /> Lewis, Philip Cameron Herr (E) & Albert Lindsay Rowland (A); 28Jan64; R331904. Why and wherefores.

Facts and fancies, book 4; Whys and wherefores, book 5; Scouting through, book 6.

Jessie Louise <pb id='137.png' /> Lewis, Philip Cameron Herr (E) & Albert Lindsay Rowland (A); 28Jan64; R331904. Why and wherefores.

I'm not keen on spelling out the whys and wherefores of anything I do....

He did give young mothers some hints of what to do, the whys and wherefores of certain lines of procedure during antenatal life, as well as the proper care thereafter.

[I do not understand the whys and wherefores of the process].