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every where (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete form of everywhere.
    • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 265, column 1:
      Clo[wne]. Foolery ſir, does walke about the Orbe like the Sun, it ſhines euery where.
    • 1776 April 14, John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams:
      We have been told that our Struggle has loosened the bands of Government every where.
    • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: [], volume I, London: [] T[homas] Egerton, [], →OCLC, pages 93–94:
      You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments every where, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; []
    • 1830, Sarah J. Hale, “Mary's Lamb”, in Poems for Our Children, Marsh, Capen & Lyon, pages 6–7:
      Mary had a little lamb, / Its fleece was white as snow, / And every where that Mary went / The lamb was sure to go ;