Amply

Examples

• I think Mademoiselle Lucy will now confess that the cord and gallows are amply earned; she trembles in anticipation of her doom. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Many will exclaim that these several causes are amply sufficient to neutralise the power of natural selection. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The soundness of his reasoning is amply justified by the perfection of results obtained in the new type of storage battery bearing his name, and now to be described. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• From his mother he had received only a slight mulatto tinge, amply compensated by its accompanying rich, dark eye. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• One shares in what another has thought and felt and in so far, meagerly or amply, has his own attitude modified. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He meant to provide for me amply, and thought he had done it; but when the living fell, it was given elsewhere. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Their prudence, unanimity, unacquaintedness with fear, and their love of their country, would amply supply all defects in the military art. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• These general considerations are amply borne out by the historical development of educational philosophy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The cause was amply discussed before the privy council. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• A bleeding about the poll on Sunday afternoons was amply accounted for by the explanation. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Bacon, as we shall amply see, was a firm believer in the study of the arts and occupations, and at th e same time retained his devotion to principles and abstract thought. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Prithee, friend, do not keep your knowledge to yourself; we are a large party; and any benefit which you confer upon us will be amply rewarded. Plato. The Republic.
• On that day week, amply provided with all necessaries, I left it, inside the stagecoach, for Reading. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A gilded mirror filled up the space between two windows, curtained amply with blue damask. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• My reasons are not of a personal nature at all, but they are amply sufficient for myself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Just now I feel as if twenty years' hard study of law would be amply rewarded by one year of such an exquisite serene life as this--such skies! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• No tradition is so amply verified as this of St. Veronica and her handkerchief. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There is already lodged in my hands a sum of money amply sufficient for your suitable education and maintenance. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But he said, I never thought of such a thing: my sole object was to serve the cause of humanity; and if I have succeeded, I am amply rewarded in the gratifying reflection of having done so. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It can then, with the utmost convenience, be read over, corrected amply, rearranged freely, retyped, and recorrected. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Only a second I hung there before tearing away, but that second was amply long to swarm my deck with black devils. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Subsequent experience has amply proven the value of Edison's prescience at this time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Charlotte assured her friend of her satisfaction in being useful, and that it amply repaid her for the little sacrifice of her time. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Lady Verinder amply justified the confidence which her husband had placed in her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• All I have revealed about the Wandering Jew can be amply proven by reference to our guide. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The present little sacrifice of your vanity will afterward be amply repaid. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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