'Mr Twemlow, if you should chance to see my husband, or to see me, or to see both of us, in the favour or confidence of any one else—whether of our common acquaintance or not, is of no consequence—you have no right to use against us the knowledge I intrusted you with, for one special purpose which has been accomplished.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Now whether it be so or not is of no consequence to religion, whatever it may be to natural philosophy.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

H2 anchor Credulity From Ignorance Of Nature Ignorance of naturall causes disposeth a man to Credulity, so as to believe many times impossibilities: for such know nothing to the contrary, but that they may be true; being unable to detect the Impossibility.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Attempts to control simple sabotage according to developing military factors, moreover, might provide the enemy with intelligence of more or less value in anticipating the date and area of notably intensified or notably slackened military activity.
— from Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

Whether you listen or not is of no consequence; and is it worth while that you should behave as you do?" "How can you know," Pao-yü answered, "the anguish in my heart!"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Whether he did one, or the other, or neither, is of no consequence and meant nothing.
— from The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 by Joel Tyler Headley

He was to agree to the proposal for the establishment of an English settlement at the Lewes, provided they did not fish in the reserved waters, and had no magazines or settlements in any of the other West or North Isles, or north of Buchan Ness or Cromarty, and not at Aberdeen if they wished any south of Buchan Ness; and the burghs were also to have the right to establish colonies at the Lewes.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

Antilles Central America and the Caribbean New Caledonia Oceania New Zealand Oceania Nicaragua Central America and the Caribbean Niger Africa Nigeria Africa Niue Oceania Norfolk Island Oceania Northern Mariana Islands Oceania Norway Europe Oman Middle East Pacific Ocean Political Map of the World Pakistan Asia Palau
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Whether McQuade believes it or not is of no matter; it serves his purpose.
— from Half a Rogue by Harold MacGrath

[493] (from 60° to 50° N. lat.), the Wakisches or Nootkans (Island of Nootka and neighbouring coasts), the Chinooks (mouth of the Oregon), and the Tularenos , or Indians of California.
— from The Human Race by Louis Figuier

This revival is coming, not with shouts and noise, but with the quiet insistence of new ideas, of new facts—with the still voice of scientific announcement.
— from The Warriors by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

A Tamilian, when speaking of a Telugu person bearing this title, would call him Naicker or Naickan instead of Naidu.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7 by Edgar Thurston