Crossword-Solution: MATTERING 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Hold, Ralf, do not go for the King; he has letters for the Emperor mattering more than this dyke.' He rode on, and did his best by leaping into the ditch, taking the spade, and showing the superior security of the angle of inclination traced by the King, but all in vain; both Trenton and Kitson silently but obstinately scouted the notion that any king should know more about ditches than themselves.

Challenge any such problem with any intelligence, and you immediately see how full it is of substance; the wonder being, all the while, as we look at the world, how absolutely, how inordinately, the Isabel Archers, and even much smaller female fry, insist on mattering.

Maisie could positively seize the moral that her elbow seemed to point in ribs thinly defended--the moral of its not mattering a straw which of the step-parents was the guardian.

There was a placidity in the simple scene that pleased me: I liked the quiet gossiping of the old market-women over their baskets of vegetables; the confidential fashion in which a gentle crone came to my elbow and begged of me in undertone, as if she meant the matter to go no further, was even mattering.

Willard consciously polite? For she _knew_ now--and did anything matter save the final things? With her own feeling of its not mattering their attitude had seemed to change; she became more as one with them--she was quick to get that difference.