whatsoe'er
Americanpronoun
Example Sentences
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Now by my son, myself, I swear, No gift, no promise whatsoe'er My steadfast soul shall now content, But only Ráma's banishment.”
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
Jove, and all Jove’s assessors in the skies Vouchsafe thee, stranger, whatsoe’er it be, 140 Thy heart’s desire! who hast our ears reliev’d From that insatiate beggar’s irksome tone.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
How beautiful ye are! how beautiful Your works, or accidents, or whatsoe'er They may be!
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
And whatsoe'er may be his prayer, Let ours be for his soul.
From Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
Man needs the presence of his fellow-man, And ever needs it, whatsoe'er his mood; Except when, in the hour he calls his own, He holds communion with his God alone.
From The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Wilfred S. Skeats
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