anything

He looked as if he had little appetite for anything. 🔊

He said he had looked into it, "but," he added crisply, "I don't profess to know anything about writing." 🔊

"Anything that you really"—and I was going to say "admire?" 🔊

But I cautiously left my sentence unfinished, and was glad that I had done so, for he said with unwonted emphasis, "Anything second-rate." 🔊

Soames was an artist, in so far as he was anything, poor fellow! 🔊

Nevertheless, I did, a day or two later, tentatively ask Harland if he knew anything of the work of a man called Enoch Soames. 🔊

Harland was the most joyous of men and most generous of critics, and he hated to talk of anything about which he couldn't be enthusiastic. 🔊

I held it upright, at its full width, close to my face, so that I had no view of anything but it. 🔊

"I can't do anything else. I've no choice." 🔊

You wouldn't say so if you had ever seen him, and I assure you that in no period would Soames be anything but dim. 🔊

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