Indirectly

Examples

• And he indirectly obliges me to force them, if I give her his message. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The least that you owe her is to make it clear to the whole world that she was in no way, directly or indirectly, responsible for his tragic end. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• An exposure would profit me indirectly to a considerable extent. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• All such compounds had heretofore been either directly or indirectly derived from plants or animals. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A long term of apprenticeship restrains it more indirectly, but as effectually, by increasing the expense of education. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She was not coldly clever and indirectly satirical, but adorably simple and full of feeling. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I believe this explanation is partly, yet only indirectly, true; I shall, however, have to return to this point in the chapter on Classification. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It is chiefly by encouraging the manufactures of Europe, that the colony trade indirectly encourages its agriculture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The latter is a direct guide to action; the former operates indirectly through the enlightenment it supplies as to ends and means. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The secret which that confession discloses should be told with little effort, for it has indirectly escaped me already. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Boots says that one of them is a Contractor who (it has been calculated) gives employment, directly and indirectly, to five hundred thousand men. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I contrived to refer to him indirectly, and after a little fencing on either side she at last mentioned that he had gone out. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Am I right in so understanding what you have told me, as that he never referred to her, directly or indirectly, in any way? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Indirectly, perhaps, he maintains as great, or even a greater number of people, than he could have done by the ancient method of expense. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Heat causes rain and wind, fog and cloud; heat enables vegetation to grow and thus indirectly provides our food. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In all cases we transfer our experience to instances, of which we have no experience, either expressly or tacitly, either directly or indirectly. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Thus we get at a new event indirectly instead of immediately--by invention, ingenuity, resourcefulness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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