Ordinarily

Examples

• Ordinarily but a few moments, if the impressions are distinct. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He had a penny too--a gift of Sowerberry's after some funeral in which he had acquitted himself more than ordinarily well--in his pocket. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Ordinarily a combination of products best serves the ends of the physician. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Ordinarily the gun has ten barrels, with ten corresponding locks, which revolve together during the working of the gun. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• As the substance is ordinarily softened by heat it is necessary to take some means to prevent it from sticking to the mould. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Railroad ties and street paving blocks are ordinarily protected by oil rather than paint. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• You are not more than ordinarily honourable, perhaps? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Towing is not ordinarily required in any part of the canal, except in the locks, for steam or motor vessels. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The atmosphere, which we ordinarily think of as a storehouse of oxygen, contains far more nitrogen than oxygen, since four fifths of its whole weight is made up of this element. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But it is one of the things that makes people be treated as reliable who would ordinarily have to spend much more time before attaining that category. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It performs automatically fifteen-sixteenths of the various movements which ordinarily would be performed by hand on a hand machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Lights went about from window to window in the lonely desolate old Hall, whereof but two or three rooms were ordinarily occupied by its owner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It is not ordinarily to be employed in aggressive movements. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• These two brothers, scientifically minded, started a bicycle shop, and bade fair to become ordinarily prosperous citizens of Dayton, much like their neighbors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This grill, you will note, is round, which particularly adapts it to the use of utensils ordinarily found in the kitchen of the average home. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• After a bath the body should be well rubbed, otherwise evaporation occurs at the expense of heat which the body cannot ordinarily afford to lose. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The fodder-corn should be allowed to approach maturity, the best point for cutting being not far from that at which we would ordinarily cut any shock. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Her cheeks, ordinarily pale, now flushed up, until they were as red as they used to be when she was a child of twelve years old. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Ordinarily we are not conscious that it requires time for sound to travel from its source to our ears, because the distance involved is too short. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The burning material is ordinarily set on fire by matches, thin strips of wood tipped with sulphur or phosphorus, or both. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Chimes are ordinarily produced mechanically by the strokes of hammers against a series of bells, tuned agreeably to a given musical scale. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Ordinarily he was like other normal lads of his age--full of boyish, hearty enjoyments--but withal possessed of an unquenchable spirit of inquiry and an insatiable desire for knowledge. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The ability to maintain in the kiln a load from five to seven times greater than ordinarily employed, thereby tending to a more economical output. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Ordinarily such socialists say that the class struggle is a movement which will end classes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Air expands greatly when heated (Fig. 3), but since air is practically invisible, we are not ordinarily conscious of any change in it. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Ordinarily it keeps its sail wet and in good sailing order by turning over and dipping it in the water for a moment. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In actual practice messages are not ordinarily sent long distances over a direct line, but are automatically transferred to new lines at definite points. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The unusual length and thickness of the strings of the double bass make it produce very low notes, so that it is ordinarily looked upon as the bass voice of the orchestra. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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