Audibly
['ɔdəbli]
Definition
(adv.) So as to be heard.
Inputed by Estella
Examples
- She sat down among the roots of the alder tree, dim and veiled, hearing the sound of the sluice like dew distilling audibly into the night. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- My eyes were bloodshot, starting from my head; every artery beat, methought, audibly, every muscle throbbed, each single nerve felt. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mr. Pickwick paused again: Emily and Arabella sobbed audibly. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The words surged through my brain again and again, until at last I must have voiced them audibly, for Yersted shook his head. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- My reflections closed in an audibly pronounced word, Graham! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I then thought fate was _too_ hard for me, and I said, audibly, This is cruel. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I gasped audibly, Where am I? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This was received as rather neat in the sergeant; insomuch that Mr. Pumblechook cried audibly, Good again! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She felt the palm burn with fever, even on the heart it pressed:--One moment, she murmured, scarce audibly, only one moment. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I fancied, indeed, that he sometimes chuckled audibly over this reflection, but the carrier said he was only troubled with a cough. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Lavvy, sitting with defiantly folded arms, replied (but not audibly), 'For goodness' sake say whichever of the two you like best, Ma, and get it over. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There was only one person on the parlour-hearth, and the loud watch in his pocket ticked audibly. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- His left hand trembled audibly in the drawer. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If you like, Rosamond answered, just audibly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It's not a thing I would put in _my_ drawing-room, said Mrs. Mawmsey, audibly, for the warning of the rash husband. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- At this moment one of the heath-croppers feeding in the outer shadows was audibly shaking off the clog attached to its foot. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She said all this in public, in classe, at the dinner-table, speaking audibly to Zélie St. Pierre. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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