He explained the significance of the name of the distant Queer Question Ranch back in Hellroaring Valley, a name derived from his own whys and why-nots.
Many a lead had the whys and why-nots of Peter Pape's nature forced him to follow, but never so interestedly had he followed the lead of a dog.
The average woman isn't given to "studying into things" as much as the average man is, so she often fails to get at the whys and wherefores of many happenings.
If anything about your plants puzzles you, use your eyes and your intelligence, and endeavor to find out the "whys and wherefores" for yourself.
At this place we become acquainted with the hows and whys of the production of blood, bone and all elements found in them, necessary to sustain sensation, motion, nutrition, voluntary and involuntary action of the nerve system.
The diaphragm surely gives much food to the one who would search for the great whys of disease as reported causes seem to be far back in the fogs of mystery.
I got him what he wanted, but know none of the whys and wherefores.
Do write and let me know all your present whys and wherefores.
She had feared these strange whys and wherefores then; and now they laid upon her only a great peace--perhaps because she sought no answer.
The minute you stopped to figure out the whys and wherefores of things that happened in this crazy war, you were sunk.
They soon found the whys and wherefores in my letter and appeal to allow the asylum to be reopened.
I well remember the perplexities and doubts that troubled my young mind in trying to find the whys and wherefores of existing facts; yet I was naturally a happy and playful child.
Now consider for a moment the whys and the wherefores of this.
To understand the whys and wherefores of this paradox one would need, himself, to be an employe of the government, of large or small degree.
We are beginning to understand the whysand wherefores.
You will see Kitty in New York again, and thewhys and wherefores will be illumined.
So why should he puzzle over the whys and wherefores of her motives?
A string of these whys could be extended indefinitely.
Man, the insatiable enquirer, hands down from age to age his questions about the whys and wherefores of origins.
But let us avoid these useless whys and keep within the province of the mere recorder.
When you apprehend a phenomenon and discover its law you have accomplished all that the term indicates, even though you fail to comprehend the whys and wherefores of the law.
I said when I first met her that I was going to find out the whys and wherefores of her.
Jerry will never be satisfied until she knows all the whys and wherefores of Veronica," laughed Marjorie.
Quite willing to satisfy Jerry's curiosity regarding the whys and wherefores of the new senior, Marjorie related the incidents pertaining to her call on the principal, ending with "The very first moment I saw her, I liked her.
But Agnes had endured much, and found it all the harder because she was so totally in the dark as to the whys and wherefores of her sister's moods.
Rose herself would have scornfully denied that any whys and wherefores--beyond her rooted dislike of Whindale--existed.
He takes it to pieces, and cleans it, and studies it; pries into the whys and wherefores, and is never satisfied until he understands every spring and cog of the machinery, and gets the mastery of it.
Over he went to the poor pit, as often as he could, to see for himself; and over he turned in his mind again and again the whys and wherefores of the failure.
SOME HOTEL WHYS Why are porters and bellboys always so much more anxious to help you out than in?
This is the divine method of meeting all the hows and whys of infidel reason.
If so be as the whats and the whys and the wherefores had a bin a forth cummin, why then the shiners might a seen the light of day, mayhap.
And if I do a doff my hat to my betters, there a be and a bin the whats and the whys and the wherefores for it.
Showin whereby as I want no quarrels nur rupturs, but peace and good will towards men, if so be as the whys and the wherefores do a bear me out.
Now it was abundantly clear that any whys and wherefores that were likely to be discussed would be discussed later.
He had hoped at least to have time to parley, to stop and discuss the whys and wherefores of the situation with the natives.
But this state of affairs bred within him such incessant discord that he envied men of action who journey through life without any whys or wherefores, as well as people who absolutely succumb to one great feeling.
And when you ask the whys and the wherefores of this, the answer comes in but two words: "terminal expense.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
