Mine old good will and hearty affection towards you is
not . . . anything at all quailed. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
Did you ever know of anything so unlucky? --A.
Trollope.
They do not know that anything is amiss with them.
--W. G.
Sumner.
2. Expressing an indefinite comparison; -- with as or like.
[Colloq. or Lowx]
I fear your girl will grow as proud as anything.
--Richardson.
Note: Any thing, written as two words, is now commonly used
in contradistinction to any person or anybody. Formerly
it was also separated when used in the wider sense.
``Necessity drove them to undertake any thing and
venture any thing.'' --De Foe.
{Anything but}, not at all or in any respect. ``The battle
was a rare one, and the victory anything but secure.''
--Hawthorne.
{Anything like}, in any respect; at all; as, I can not give
anything like a fair sketch of his trials.