Even

Clear out those rocks. The surface must be even.

Despite her fear, she spoke in an even voice.

The distribution of food must be even.

Call it even.

Four, fourteen and forty are even numbers.

Coles. How many shares have you bought, Mr. Garfinkle? Garfinkle. One hundred and ninety-six thousand.[…] Jorgenson. […] How'd you figure out to buy such an odd amount? Why not two hundred thousand — nice even number. Thought you liked nice even numbers.

He put me on the scale in my underwear and socks: 82 pounds.[…] I left, humming all day long, remembering that once upon a time my ideal weight had been 84, and now I'd even beaten that. I decided 80 was a better number, a nice even number to be.

You biffed me back at the barn, and I biffed you here—so now we're even.

And shall lay thee even with the ground.

I know my life so even.

His even servant.

We need to even this playing field; the west goal is too low.

This temple Xerxes evened with the soil.

[...] It will now be good to Beat, Roll, and Mow Carpet-walks, and Cammomile; for now the ground is ſupple, and it will even all inequalities: [...]

The Engliſh Earl [William Longespée the Younger], though he ſtood on the lower ground in point of birth, yet conceived himſelf to even him [Robert I, Count of Artois] in valour and martiall knowledge.

“But aside from that,” I continued, “what have I done that you should even me to dogs by such a supposition? I never yet failed a friend, and it’s not likely I’ll begin with you. There are things between us that I can never forget, even if you can.”

Thrice nine evens twenty seven.

A redoubled numbering never eveneth with the first.

We need to even the score.

Madam, the care I have had to even your content I wish might be found in the calendar of my past endeavours, for then we wound our modesty, and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

Prithee away, There's more to be considered: but we'll even All that good time will give us.

I fulfilled my instructions even as I had promised.

You are leaving tonight? — Even so.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

But on the occasion in question, those dents looked deeper, even as his nervous step that morning left a deeper mark.

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.

Did you even make it through the front door?

That was before I was even born.

He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.

Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.

Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.

I was strong before, but now I am even stronger.

Bob is taller than Alice, but Cameron is even taller than Bob.

My favorite actor is Jack Nicklaus. Jack Nicholson, even.

So let's see. There are two evens here and three odds.

We'll meet at even, when the sun is set.

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When ſparkling ſtars twire not thou guil'ſt th' eauen.

And if any mans ſeede of copulation goe out from him, then hee ſhall waſh all his fleſh in water, and bee vncleane vntill the Euen.