Favorably
['feivərəbli]
Examples
- That Department, through Sir William Henry Preece, Engineer-in-Chief of Telegraphs, took up the subject, and reported very favorably on the Marconi System. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I now telegraphed to Washington: The fight to-day progressed favorably. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I had been a neighbor of Bowen's in Missouri, and knew him well and favorably before the war; but his request was refused. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Relatively few cities and towns are so favorably situated as regards water; more often the mountains are too distant, or the elevation is too slight, to be of practical value. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- On the morning of the 31st, General Warren reported favorably to getting possession of the White Oak Road, and was directed to do so. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Well, it might be a real missionary work, said she, looking rather more favorably on the child. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- In the meantime I had to look after other portions of my command, where things had not been going on so favorably, always, as I could have wished. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The sister is pretty, said Celia, implying that she thought less favorably of Mr. Casaubon's mother. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I knew him, however, very well and favorably from the accounts given by officers under me at the West who had known him all their lives. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He was favorably impressed. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Henry in patent No. 30,446, October 16, 1860, re-issued December 7, 1868, No. 3,227, and was manufactured and favorably known for many years as the _Henry rifle_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The two latter reported favorably. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typist: Mason