_:vb7344462 "1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 17, in The Scarlet Letter:"@en . . _:vb7344463 "He may be thought inconsistent, and even so he is."@en . _:vb7344460 "Pistol: Trail'st thou the puissant pike?King Henry V: Even so. What are you?"@en . _:vb7344464 "1895, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 13, in The Golden Age:"@en . _:vb7344461 "\"I am thankful that [\u2026] no syllable of rude verse has ever profaned my lips.\"\"You have, then, limited your efforts to sacred song?\"\"Even so. As the psalms of David exceed all other language, so does the psalmody that has been fitted to them by the divines and sages of the land, surpass all vain poetry. Happily, I may say, that I utter nothing but the thoughts and the wishes of the King of Israel himself [\u2026] \""@en . _:vb7344461 "1826, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter 2, in The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757.\u00A0[\u2026], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea\u2014\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, page 25:"@en . "2" . _:vb7344459 . _:vb7344459 "(archaic) Exactly thus: in exactly such a manner (as said or surmised); of precisely such a nature."@en . _:vb7344464 "What a strange thing, I mused, was this smoking, that takes a man suddenly, be he in the court, the camp, or the grove, grips him like an Afreet, and whirls him off to do its imperious behests! Would it be even so with myself, I wondered, in those unknown grown-up years to come?"@en . _:vb7344462 "\"Hester! Hester Prynne!\", said he; \"is it thou? Art thou in life?\"\"Even so,\" she answered."@en . _:vb7344460 . _:vb7344461 . _:vb7344462 . _:vb7344463 . _:vb7344464 . _:vb7344463 "1857, Herman Melville, chapter 14, in The Confidence Man:"@en . _:vb7344460 "1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, \u201CThe Life of Henry the Fift\u201D, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies\u00A0[\u2026] (First Folio), London: [\u2026] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:"@en .