By supposing such an affection, you make everybody acting unnaturally and wrong, and me most unhappy.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Oh! why is not everybody as happy?
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody’s character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Everybody declared that he was the wickedest young man in the world; and everybody began to find out that they had always distrusted the appearance of his goodness.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don’t see or care.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
And I do not think it of light importance that he should have attentive and conciliatory manners towards everybody, especially towards those to whom he owes his preferment.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Get some more ice and mineral water, Myrtle, before everybody goes to sleep.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The wedding took place; the bride and bridegroom set off for Kent from the church door, and everybody had as much to say, or to hear, on the subject as usual.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Everybody had seen it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
And gravely glancing at Mr. Darcy, “There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with—‘Keep your breath to cool your porridge,’—and I shall keep mine to swell my song.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Everybody I knew was in the bond business, so I supposed it could support one more single man.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Everybody is disgusted with his pride.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
But everybody is to judge for themselves, and the Lucases are a very good sort of girls, I assure you.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Everybody kept saying to me: ‘Lucille, that man’s way below you!’
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I thought everybody knew.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Whereupon everybody laughed.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Everybody said how well she looked; and Mr. Bingley thought her quite beautiful, and danced with her twice.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The venison was roasted to a turn—and everybody said they never saw so fat a haunch.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Remember that she is one of a large family; that as to fortune, it is a most eligible match; and be ready to believe, for everybody’s sake, that she may feel something like regard and esteem for our cousin.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
But I can guess how it was; everybody says that he is eat up with pride, and I dare say he had heard somehow that Mrs. Long does not keep a carriage, and had come to the ball in a hack chaise.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
It is what everybody says.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Everybody smoked all through lunch.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The look and behaviour of everybody they had seen were discussed, except of the person who had mostly engaged their attention.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I deceived everybody, therefore, yourself included, and I came down secretly when I was supposed to be in London.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Everybody thinks so—the most advanced people.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
There is no talk of his coming to Netherfield again in the summer; and I have enquired of everybody, too, who is likely to know.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Everybody was drunk.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Everybody was surprised; and Darcy, after looking at her for a moment, turned silently away.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
He joined them on their entering the town, and attended them to their aunt’s where his regret and vexation, and the concern of everybody, was well talked over.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
In the afternoon Lydia was urgent with the rest of the girls to walk to Meryton, and to see how everybody went on; but Elizabeth steadily opposed the scheme.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“I say no more than the truth, and everybody will say that knows him,” replied the other.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
You are a very strange creature by way of a friend!—always wanting me to play and sing before anybody and everybody!
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“And your defect is to hate everybody.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
For, though elated by his rank, it did not render him supercilious; on the contrary, he was all attention to everybody.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
He has always something to say to everybody.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of those who consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for everybody.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
There could be no conversation in the noise of Mrs. Phillips’s supper party, but his manners recommended him to everybody.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Do you not consider that a connection with you must disgrace him in the eyes of everybody?”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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Usage
1 use of ‘everybody’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
38 uses of ‘everybody’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
10 uses of ‘everbody’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1 use of ‘everybody’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle