If any of you have been accustomed to look upon these hours as mere visionary hours, I beseech you, etc.—Beecher
Whenever, during his stay at Yuste, any of his friends had died, he had been punctual in doing honor to their memory.—Stirling.
But I enjoy the company and conversation of its inhabitants, when any of them are so good as to visit me.—Franklin.
Do you think, when I spoke anon of the ghosts of Pryor's children, I mean that any of them are dead?—Thackeray.
In earlier Modern English, any was often singular; as,—
If any, speak; for him have I offended.—Shakespeare.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.—Bible.
Very rarely the singular is met with in later times; as,—
Here is a poet doubtless as much affected by his own descriptions as any that reads them can be.—Burke.
Caution.