Intensely
[in'tensli]
Definition
(adv.) Intently.
(adv.) To an extreme degree; as, weather intensely cold.
Typist: Louis
Examples
- This vapor is rendered intensely cold by expansion, and this cold is imparted to the water in tank _a_ to freeze it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- His facility in making hasty but intensely graphic sketches is proverbial. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was a queenly presence--tall, graceful, and intensely womanly. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- From the late summer of 1878 and to the fall of 1887 Edison was intensely busy on the electric light, electric railway, and other problems, and virtually gave no attention to the phonograph. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was this intensely interesting side of bee life that attracted the attention of a clergyman in failing health, forced to seek out-of-door occupation, in the early forties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The white, snow-like vapor seen falling over the edges of the tumbler is intensely cold and heavier than ordinary air. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- During the daylight hours it is always extremely hot; at night it is intensely cold. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He was intensely loyal to Zat Arras. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Intensely astonished, Twemlow puts his hand to his forehead, and sinks back in his chair meditating. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Dr. Jackson was intensely interested in electricity, and more especially in some experiments that Faraday had lately been making in regard to it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The miracle of a bird's flight, that st eady and almost effortless motion, had interested Langley intensely--as had also the sun's radiation--from the years of his childhood. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This constant interruption is taken by many to mean that Edison has a small opinion of any arguments that oppose him; but he is only intensely in earnest in presenting his own side. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- All men, taken singly, are more or less selfish; and taken in bodies, they are intensely so. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I warn my kyind friends, then, that I am going to tell a story of harrowing villainy and complicated--but, as I trust, intensely interesting--crime. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Germany meantime was intensely interested in Count Zeppelin’s dirigible balloons, which, although as long as a battle-ship, had flown with great success. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He describes the boy of sixteen as engrossed intensely in his experiments and scientific reading, and somewhat indifferent, for this reason, to his duties as operator. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A year ago I was myself intensely miserable, because I thought I had made a mistake in entering the ministry: its uniform duties wearied me to death. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Cassy sat looking intensely at him in the shadow of the corner. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Like a child at the breast, he cleaved intensely to her, and she could not put him away. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It became intensely cold. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He was intensely miserable, this strong man of nine-and-twenty and of many gifts. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Again, and more intensely than ever, she desired a fixed occupation, no matter how onerous, how irksome. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Ma, pray don't sit staring at me in that intensely aggravating manner! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Very, Sir,' responded Pott, looking intensely sage. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was night when they landed, and intensely dark. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He talked to the ladies by fits and starts, choosing for topics whatever was most intensely commonplace. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He is, however, intensely personal and neighborly, and what he wants to know is, Is Mars inhabited? Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The intensely hot steam is thus decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen, and the oxygen unites with the carbon of the coal to form carbonic oxide gas. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- His little catechism of curious inquiry was embraced in four small and intensely Anglo-Saxon words--with his usual pleasant smile he extended his hand and said: 'Did you get it? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Edison's own account of the invention of the phonograph is intensely interesting. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Louis