Eminently

Examples

• My disposition is, if I may say so, eminently practical. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is eminently mine to ask such questions, when I have to decide whether I will have transactions with you and accept your money. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Heron has described how a pied peacock was eminently attractive to all his hen birds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• My dear,' assented her eminently practical parent, 'quite true, quite true. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill-educated, become pre-eminently bad? Plato. The Republic.
• The philosopher, delighting in speculation, was also eminently a man of action. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We have also formerly seen that parts many times repeated are eminently liable to vary, not only in number, but in form. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It was eminently superfluous to him to be told that he was reaping the consequences. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The community is eminently Portuguese--that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• For this purpose the alternating current seems eminently adapted, as transformers only are needed to raise the line to high transmission voltage and to lower it again for use. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As a so eminently respectable man, Mr Podsnap was sensible of its being required of him to take Providence under his protection. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Less conspicuous but still eminently useful were his discoveries and labours in other directions, in the expansion of gases, evaporation, steam, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He had a particular pride in the phrase eminently practical, which was considered to have a special application to him. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• They were all eminently successful, but without any good result. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• So it is with hybrids, for their offspring in successive generations are eminently liable to vary, as every experimentalist has observed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The knowledge to be gained by such inquiry is eminently practical, and of a kind which those engaged in any of the pursuits of life can scarcely fail to require. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Mr Sampson said he was sure of it too; murmuring how eminently he respected Mrs Wilfer, and ever must, and ever would. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But their situation was eminently perilous, and was becoming more so with every moment. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Mr. Bounderby being restrained by this mild suggestion, Mr. Gradgrind found an opening for his eminently practical exposition of the subject. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• There are great spiritual advantages to be had in that town along with the air and the waters, and six weeks there will be eminently refreshing to us. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Then comes the question; said the eminently practical father, with his eyes on the fire, 'in what has this vulgar curiosity its rise? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Would have been self-willed (he thought in his eminently practical way) but for her bringing-up. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• He was eminently great in common things. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• As soon as it cools it hardens into an impervious glossy layer that I should think eminently adapted to this purpose. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• A Syrian village is the sorriest sight in the world, and its surroundings are eminently in keeping with it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Anyhow, he named to me that the house had a board up, “This Eminently Aristocratic Mansion to be let or sold. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Never more eminently, he added, than after what had passed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Raymond was eminently social. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It is eminently respectable, and likewise, in a general way, retainer-like. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The last doubters surrendered, and admitted that Edison had given the world a new light, and one which was not simply a scientific marvel, but was eminently practical and useful. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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