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English
Adverb
any where (not comparable)
- Obsolete form of anywhere.
1878, Thomas Tusser, “A Comparison betweene Champion Countrie and Seuerall”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. , London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., , →OCLC; republished as W Payne, Sidney J Herrtage, editors, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. , London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., , 1878, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 141:What laier much better then there, / or cheaper (thereon to doo well?) / What drudgerie more any where / lesse good thereof where can ye tell? / What gotten by Sommer is seene: / in Winter is eaten vp cleene.
1618 April 22 (date written; Gregorian calendar), John Donne, “A Sermon Preached at White-hall Aprill 12. 1618.”, in XXVI. Sermons (Never before Publish’d) Preached by that Learned and Reverend Divine John Donne, The Third Volume, London: Thomas Newcomb, , published 1661, →OCLC, page 179:It is true our life in this vvorld is not called a baniſhment any vvhere in the Scripture: but a pilgrimage, a peregrination, a travell; but perigrinatio cum ignominia conjunctu, exilium; he that leaves his Countrey becauſe he vvas aſhamed, or afraid to return to it, or to ſtay in it, is a baniſhed man.
1682, A M, An Anatomical Account of the Elephant Accidentally Burnt in Dublin, on Fryday, June 17. in the Year 1681. Sent in a Letter to Sir Will Petty, Fellow of the Royal Society. Together with a Relation of New Anatomical Observations in the Eyes of Animals: Communicated in another Letter to the Honourable R Boyle, Esq.; Fellow of the Same Society, London: Printed for Sam Smith, bookseller, at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard, →OCLC, page 19:The Inteſtina tenuia were burnt in many places, but not quite through any where, excepting two or three.
1783, George Armstrong, “Rules to be Observed in the Nursing of Children: With a Particular View to Those who are Brought Up by Hand”, in An Account of the Diseases Most Incident to Children, from the Birth till the Age of Puberty; with a Successful Method of Treating Them. To which is Added, an Essay on Nursing: With a Particular View to Children who are Brought Up by Hand. Also a Short General Account of the Dispensary for the Infant Poor, new edition, London: Printed for T Cadell, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 176:If ſhe obſerves that the ſkin ſeems any where to be chafed, after dabbling the part very well with cold water, and drying it gently with a fine cloth, let her apply ſome common powder to it, by means of a ſoft puff.
1811, , chapter XI, in Sense and Sensibility , volume II, London: C Roworth, , and published by T Egerton, , →OCLC, pages 202–203: “but she was so much engaged with her mother, that really she had no leisure for going any where.”