Forcibly

Examples

• In consequence of this law, when Memphis was occupied the provost-marshal had forcibly collected all the evidences he could obtain of such debts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The value of an event on a wet day in the country was most forcibly brought before her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Did one have to die like this--having the life extracted forcibly from one, whilst one smiled and made conversation to the end? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A girl was hung in Massachusetts in 1789 for forcibly taking the hat, shoes, and buckles of another girl she had met in the street. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It now struck me very forcibly that Worcester had deserved all my devoted attachment, and that I had not been half grateful enough to him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• She represented to her sister as forcibly as possible what she felt on the subject, and had soon the pleasure of seeing its happy effect. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I tried to put the point forcibly, just as I have put it here. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This will strike any reflecting mind forcibly. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But when we noticed it on this vibrator it seemed so strong that it struck us forcibly there might be something more than induction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And, without farther discussion, the old Jew was forcibly dragged off in a different direction from the other prisoners. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• This wonderful aptitude for infallibly locating an error without an instant's hesitation for mental calculation, has always appealed to me very forcibly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To burgle his house is no more than to forcibly take his pocketbook--an action in which you were prepared to aid me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The importance of the point struck me so forcibly that I sent a special wire to Dartmoor yesterday to clear the matter up. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was a contrast which recommended him most forcibly to her mother. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• She was most forcibly struck. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The general air of the place reminded me forcibly of the days when I lived with Mr. and Mrs. Micawber. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Hardly any recent discovery shows more forcibly than this how little we as yet know of the former inhabitants of the world. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The objection struck me, all the more forcibly that it reflected an objection which I had felt myself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It would have to be taken hold of, and forcibly stretched as it passed through the pair of rollers, if it were to be drawn out, and not merely compressed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Happening to arrive at the door as it was opened to the afternoon milkman, I was reminded of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber more forcibly yet. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Because she was forcibly kept at home by Bill, the man she had told them of before,' replied Noah. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• So briskly and forcibly Napoleon set his mind, hard, clear, narrow, and base, to brace up France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On one occasion the Idumeans, being conquered, were all forcibly made Jews. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Harriet had not surmised her own danger, but the idea of it struck her forcibly. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I imagined, that it was my imperative duty to take her from scenes that thus forcibly reminded her of her loss. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She intervened so forcibly and in such terms that the manager was reduced to silence. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Edited by Estelle