Perfectly

Examples

• Your decisions are perfectly judicious, madam, returned Mr. Brocklehurst. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Reply: I fancy, though we never met, that you and I are in fact acquainted, and understand each other perfectly. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• She merely observed that he was perfectly good humoured and friendly. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Now, said she, that this first meeting is over, I feel perfectly easy. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Having first seen him perfectly swallowed up in admiration of Mrs. Jellyby, I had supposed her to be the absorbing object of his devotion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I would suggest that in the meantime, we remain perfectly quiet, and keep these matters secret even from Oliver himself. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It's perfectly wonderful, Birkin harrowing Hell--harrowing the Pompadour--HIC! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Dodson coughed and looked at Fogg, who said 'Perfectly,' also. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And on another account, too, I can perfectly comprehend. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I am perfectly comfortable to-day. Jane Austen. Emma.
• A set of animals, with their organisation but little diversified, could hardly compete with a set more perfectly diversified in structure. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Hassan, in another dress, is in an attitude by Zuleikah, who is perfectly reconciled to him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He sat perfectly still, in an unalterable calm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The guide was perfectly serene. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Mrs Boffin will be very well pleased,' said the Secretary in a perfectly composed way. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I also perfectly understood English and German. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I was too frank to deny that I perfectly agreed with him in this particular. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• She was perfectly inaccessible, even to such generosity as this. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• After that reply had reached her, she was at the end of her resources, and perfectly ignorant where else to inquire or what else to do. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• His worship knew this perfectly well; but it was a good annoyance, and a safe one. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Lucy was all exultation on being so honorably distinguished; and Miss Steele wanted only to be teazed about Dr. Davies to be perfectly happy. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• She was perfectly at her ease, perhaps even rather happy in this conversation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There were intervals in which she could sit perfectly still, enjoying the outer stillness and the subdued light. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I have thought it all over I assure you, and I can perfectly account for every thing that at first seemed strange to me as well as to you. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Of one thing you may be perfectly certain. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• A long silence ensued; during which the Jew was plunged in deep thought, with his face wrinkled into an expression of villainy perfectly demoniacal. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• After he had done speaking, he still moved about, half in absence of mind, and Rosamond sat perfectly still. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But she had resumed her old seat in front of the fire, and sat, perfectly motionless before it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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