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.

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

"I wish not to have any more whys," she said impatiently.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

Hows and whys of human behavior.

Alfred Hall-Quest (A); 20Jun56; R172659. HALLIDAY, EVELYN G. Hows and whys of cooking, by Evelyn G. Halliday and Isabel T. Noble.

Hows and whys of cooking.

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

Hows and whys of cooking.

and whys of human behavior.

Hows and whys of human behavior.

Alfred Hall-Quest (A); 20Jun56; R172659. HALLIDAY, EVELYN G. Hows and whys of cooking, by Evelyn G. Halliday and Isabel T. Noble.

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

Hows and whys of cooking.

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].