Faithfully
['feɪθfʊlɪ;-f(ə)lɪ] or ['feθfəli]
Definition
(adv.) in a faithful manner; 'it always came on, faithfully, like the radio'.
Typist: Trevor--From WordNet
Examples
- I don't like these things, but if one carries them out faithfully they are not really lowering. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They were in part peculiar indeed, but I have followed them to each last detail as faithfully as I was able. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He laboured faithfully in the parish. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yorke, if Mary had loved you silently yet faithfully, chastely yet fervently, as you would wish your wife to love, would you have left her? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- However, I loved her faithfully; and one time I went home with her for the holidays. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- That she will faithfully apply herself to the acquisition of those accomplishments, upon the exercise of which she will be ultimately dependent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Quite as faithfully. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I refused to part with him till he had most faithfully promised punctually at two the next morning. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I promised them so faithfully! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He grudged the time lost between Piccadilly and his old haunt at the Slaughters', whither he drove faithfully. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Let him feel that he has a part to do, and he will do it gladly and faithfully, and it will be better for you all. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Whether there was, or not, we must leave the reader to determine, when we have faithfully recorded the behaviour of the individual in question. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Let me watch over you as faithfully as ever! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I cannot even render faithfully the effect it produced on me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Frankly and faithfully, I would if I could. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We all promised faithfully, Richard with a merry glance at me touching his pocket as if to remind me that there was no danger of OUR transgressing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And the poor child Little Dorrit thought of him--too faithfully, ah, too faithfully! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He came faithfully, and he brought me the two one-pound notes. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- If we all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I hope he will always take care to make it faithfully, never slight manufacture, or attempt to deceive by appearances. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It was almost as great a relief to my mind as to Laura's, to find that my memory had served me, on this occasion, as faithfully as usual. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I begged his patience to hear me tell my story, which I faithfully did, from the last time I left England, to the moment he first discovered me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- If ever I can do anything to serve the poor betrayed girl, I will do it faithfully, please Heaven! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Oliver, quite elated and honoured by a sense of his importance, faithfully promised to be secret and explicit in his communications. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I have suppressed none of my many weaknesses on that subject, but have written them as faithfully as my memory has recalled them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This was faithfully done, all the changes being made before the plant was put into operation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One of the chief reasons for the Wrights’ success was that they had studied their subject long and faithfully before they tried to fly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I faithfully repeated it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I must see him to-night, for I faithfully promised to do so. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It is the more remarkable as being formed when I was so young, and yet being pretty faithfully adhered to quite through to old age. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Typist: Trevor