English

Adverb

somewhy ‎(not comparable)

1. For some reason

   • 1864, Browning, Robert, “Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"”, in Wikisource, line 505, retrieved 2012-01-18:

     Out of the drift of facts, whereby you learn / What some was, somewhere, somewhen, somewhy?

   • 1988,, Thomas P. Riggio, editor, Letters to Women: New Letters, Reprint edition, University of Illinois Press, published 2009, ISBN 9780252033766, page 179:

     I loved them both—but not so very much else in the book—but I read them over twice & thought—somewhy—of Highland Park & our quaint little trips to Los Angles & elsewhere thereabouts on the street car.

   • 2003, Cameron Royce Jess, Bearer of the Chose Seed (Fiction), Inscape Publications, ISBN 9780973241402, page 15:

     Somewhy I've always had this stupid idea that something or something or somebody awful is waiting here for me.

   • 2008, Margaret Feinberg, “Bring Them to Me”, in The Sacred Echo, Zondervan, ISBN 9780310309079, page unk:

     But somehow, somewhy, he did something and that woman knew it. And somehow, somewhy on a whole lot of other days he doesn't do anything we can see ...

   • 2011, Issac Marion, Warm Bodies (Fiction), Simon and Schuster, ISBN 9781439192313, page 92:

     Or is it actually him? Still holding on somewhere, somehow, somewhy.