Lately

Examples

• There she satand who would have guessed how many tears she had been lately shedding? Jane Austen. Emma.
• Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You have been going often yourself, then, lately? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Hawley has been having him to dinner lately: there's a fund of talent in Bowyer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We have been made quite uneasy by the poor accounts we have had of her state, lately, I do assure you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I had thought so more than once lately. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Yes,--he went on before I could make any apologies--I have not been well lately. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Have you lately come to settle in this neighbourhood, or do you own to another neighbourhood? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But I was coming to tell 'ee of something else which is quite different from what we have lately had in the family. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• With respect to climbing plants, I need not repeat what has been so lately said. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I hear even Rosedale has been scared by the talk lately, Mrs. Fisher rejoined; but the sight of her last night sent him off his head. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And once or twice lately, when he was alone in the evening and had nothing to do, he had suddenly stood up in terror, not knowing what he was. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They are every-day things:--perhaps they have been a little worse lately. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Have you been writing many letters, and receiving many letters lately? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This gentleman, a stranger to me, stopped me one day at my door, and asked me if I was the young man who had lately opened a new printing-house. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

Edited by Davy