"Withal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... settlements. The opening and reading of all the dispatches, which the General received about bed-time, had, of course, to be gone through with, before he could retire to rest. His eyes being weak, his secretaries were employed to read the communications. He was a little deaf withal, and through the slight division between the two apartments the contents of the letters, and his comments upon them, were unpleasantly audible, as he continually admonished his secretary ...
— Wau-bun - The Early Day in the Northwest • Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie
... old Iolaeus. There That drifting, chant-like monody, Its eerie passion, weird despair, Had wrought on me like wizardry;— Withal he moved through strange eclipse With God's faint finger at his lips, And with such tense and far surprise, That half uncanny seemed the man With cloudy hair, in human guise, So warped with age, so ...
— Iolaeus - The man that was a ghost • James A. Mackereth
... materialistically. Mr. Laing no doubt, as he confesses, has lived pleasantly enough. He has found in what he calls science an endless source of diversion, he betrays himself everywhere as a man of intense intellectual curiosity in every direction, and yet withal so little concerned with the roots of things, so easily satisfied with a little plausible coherence in a theory, as not to have found truth an apparently stern or exacting mistress, not to have felt the anguish of any deep mental ...
— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell
... "and withal some bittersweet, but, better than these, and more, he has left me heart's-ease. This little flower," continued the senator, "is sown in times of great doubt and sorrow and trouble, and it will ...
— Aladdin O'Brien • Gouverneur Morris
... fucus, To touch you o'er withal.——Honour'd Sejanus! What act, though ne'er so strange and insolent, But that addition will at least bear out, If't ...
— Sejanus: His Fall • Ben Jonson
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