What is "mattered"

Usage examples of "mattered".

I left him with a courteous bow, begging him to send me his man and a cup of coffee, chocolate, or broth, it mattered not which.

Nothing mattered but the oxygen flooding through his chest, plumping up his shriveled cells like raisins soaked in water.

Her eyes opened again, but she spoke dully, as though nothing mattered any longer.

This mattered the less to her, as she was retiring by disposition, and very much absorbed, to all appearance, in her husband and her domestic duties.

They may have been venomous beasts for all I know, but they did us no harm, and we were now tuned to a pitch when a weird creeping thing more or less mattered little.

What impressed itself upon my mind was that the face which I had never expected to see again on the earth, even in a picture, was once more given to my eyes, it mattered not how.

Hans announced himself ready to swear anything, adding blandly that words mattered nothing, as afterwards we could do whatever seemed best in our own interests, whereon I read him a short moral lecture on the heinousness of perjury, which did not seem to impress him very much.

Neither Woola nor I had eaten since the previous day, but in so far as he was concerned it mattered but little, since practically all the animals of the dead sea bottoms of Mars are able to go for incredible periods without nourishment.

Or was it that the frame once charged with its marvellous virtue could bear no more, so that were the process repeated--it mattered not at what lapse of time--the two impregnations neutralised each other, and left the body on which they acted as it was before it ever came into contact with the very essence of Life?

Not that the lack of potential weapons mattered, given that my hands were still firmly tied.

It was only a matter of time before he did something overtly Catholiclike make the Sign of the Crossin front of someone who mattered to Roger.

It was a decent plan and Lukien was satisfied with it, but none of it mattered unless Cassandra came.

As if sixteen minutes mattered, he thought scornfully, though pleased he had learned gai-jin timekeeping so quickly.

It had been completely unnecessary to send her to another room--as if it mattered that she was next door, she would not be listening to their cries or thrashing about.

Angelique was all that mattered and being tai-pan, but not only in name.