1 Having tethered the horses, and bade Lucy adieu, he threw his gun over his shoulder, and set out in search of whatever chance might throw in his way.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 2 I was to bring a certain sum a week to the owner, and whatever was over that I might keep for myself.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W... 3 There was no wastage whatever; the hens and ducks with their sharp eyes had gathered up the very last stalk.
4 But it was noticed that these two were never in agreement: whatever suggestion either of them made, the other could be counted on to oppose it.
5 In any case he had no difficulty in proving to the other animals that they were NOT in reality short of food, whatever the appearances might be.
6 Between pigs and human beings there was not, and there need not be, any clash of interests whatever.
7 In which case it meant--but what it meant to Mrs. Sands, when people missed their trains, and she, whatever she might want to do, must wait, by the oven, keeping meat hot, no one knew.
8 Nothing whatever appeared on the stage.
9 Each turned ostensibly to say--O whatever came handy--to his neighbour.
10 But, the gramophone asserted, let us retain whatever made that harmony.
11 To continue in fistic phraseology, he had a genius for coming up to the scratch, wherever and whatever it was, and proving himself an ugly customer.
12 He looked at her with some disappointment in his face, but with a respectful and patient conviction that she must be right in whatever she did.
13 These accidents did sometimes happen in the best regulated families of Coketown, but the bankrupts had no connexion whatever with the improvident classes.
14 You know I am a sordid piece of human nature, ready to sell myself at any time for any reasonable sum, and altogether incapable of any Arcadian proceeding whatever.
15 You may be certain that I will save you at whatever cost.