"By any means" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all Mr. Fisher's skill and ingenuity will be required. Why so many Northern politicians should have weakly surrendered this point is a mystery. Because the slaveholders (who are not, Mr. Fisher, "the people of the Slave States," by any means, but a small portion of them) are at home a privileged aristocracy, have they any claim to the same position abroad? If so, on what does it rest? The laws of the Southern States? They are now beyond their jurisdiction. The common law? To that wise and beneficent ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 34, August, 1860 • Various
... they guard against anybody's seeing them; and woe betide any one who should frequent any particular spot too often: he is at once set down as designing a plot against it, to fortify the place and take it from them; this idea is their greatest bugbear. Among that tribe blood shed by any means—by the stealthy knife or in fair fight—is deemed meritorious and an act of heroism. No one is ever sure of his life unless he has force to carry him through, or can rely on the chief of the clan as his pillar of safety. This latter plan is probably ...
— What Led To The Discovery of the Source Of The Nile • John Hanning Speke
... so warmly!" Miss Kling remarked. "However," conciliatingly, "I don't suppose by any means that you are in love with Quimby! You are much too sensible a young lady ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer
... terrible forebodings, men began to flee from a doomed world, and try to be alone with God, if by any means they might save each man his own soul in ...
— The Hermits • Charles Kingsley
... was shorter than his companion and more clumsily made, though not by any means a stout man. Though he did not look like a soldier he had about him the very combative air which belongs to so many modern financiers of the Christian breed. There was the bull-dog jaw, the iron mouth, and the aggressive blue ...
— The Primadonna • F. Marion Crawford
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