"In any event" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together ...
— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing
... But, in any event, he concluded, it was a miserable business. Still, he had only done what was right. He had seen it coming on for a month now, and how much better it was that they should separate now than later, or that they ...
— Gallegher and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... hundred and fifty pounds in two big leather mail-sacks.) Although I replied that I thought it better to change at Loehne anyway, the conductor insisted upon my following his plan. He was backed up by the detective, who, except for various goings out and in, had remained facing me. They informed me that in any event my mail-bags in the baggage car would go through to Essen. As by this time the train was already slowing up for the station at Loehne, ...
— The Note-Book of an Attache - Seven Months in the War Zone • Eric Fisher Wood
... hostile array, but his face was white, his hand unsteady and his answer, when it came, was in a voice that Ray heard in mingled pain and wonderment. Could it be that the lad was unnerved by the sight? In any event, ...
— A Daughter of the Sioux - A Tale of the Indian frontier • Charles King
... family, and can understand, without an explanation from me, how their thoughts and feelings should and ought to influence my action; but I will not even throw off on them the responsibility. I will not, in any event, entertain or accept a nomination as a candidate for President by the Chicago Republican convention, or any other convention, for reasons personal to myself. I claim that the Civil War, in which I simply did a man's fair share of work, so perfectly accomplished ...
— McClure's Magazine, January, 1896, Vol. VI. No. 2 • Various
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