Expressly

Examples

• That place was not beyond the limits of my command, which, it had been expressly declared in orders, were not defined. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She has got three competent people to look after her--Fosco and your aunt, and Mrs. Rubelle, who went away with them expressly for that purpose. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And this, Mr Wegg expressly points out, not at all for the sake of the reward--though it would be a want of principle not to take it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Precisely; that is what she expressly desires. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The dinner, which was given expressly for the officers of the Tenth Hussars, he was obliged to attend. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The success of this experiment induced Mr. Miller to have a larger boat built, expressly adapted for the introduction of a steam engine. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• An apprentice is scarce ever married; and it is expressly enacted, that no married servant shall gain any settlement by being hired for a year. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He expressly forbade me to write to you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There were misunderstandings between them, Emma; he said so expressly. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Indeed, Dodson expressly said so to me, and so did Fogg. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Sebright expressly experimented with this object and failed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Mr. Micawber is going to a distant country expressly in order that he may be fully understood and appreciated for the first time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Sensible of my deficiencies, I have surrounded myself with moral influences expressly meant to promote the formation of the domestic virtues. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Strange that Creation, designed expressly for Monseigneur, should be so soon wrung dry and squeezed out! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The state expressly asks him to trust to Bucket. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He was so polite as to stop at a public-house, expressly on our account, and entertain us with broiled mutton and beer. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But, Lizzie, I came expressly to join you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Behold me here expressly to prevent it! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• If it isn't very brown, ma, I can't eat it, and must have a bit put back to be done expressly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Expressly stipulated in Magna Charta, sir,' said Mr. Jinks. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Adrian looked expressly at their leader, saying, Can you not silence your followers? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They apply so happily to the late case that Sir Leicester has come from the library to my Lady's room expressly to read them aloud. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I inquired, and I was answered in the negative, and he frankly assured me that his visit to that theatre was expressly to look for me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I expressly said, if I may be allowed to repeat, or even to conclude what I was about to say-- Ah, here's Minchin! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Am I not expressly speaking of my poor uncle? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But this reasoning is plainly unconclusive; because it supposes, that in our denial of a cause we still grant what we expressly deny, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The Temple of Vesta might have sprung up anew from its ruins, expressly to lend its countenance to the occasion. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Plato expressly says that he is intending to found an Hellenic State (Book V). Plato. The Republic.
• This is one of the roses of Eden that the Lord has dropped down expressly for the poor and lowly, who get few enough of any other kind. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Mr. Casaubon always expressly recognized it as his duty to take care of us because of the harsh injustice which had been shown to his mother's sister. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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