Plainly

Examples

• Do I show it so plainly? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• His face, his voice, his manner, all showed that too plainly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This standard is plainly imaginary. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The other said: Ah, that wonderful face is so humble, so pleading--it says as plainly as words could say it: 'I fear; I tremble; I am unworthy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But how important an element enclosure is, I plainly saw near Farnham, in Surrey. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The Mexicans all the way back to the city could see the same thing, and their conduct showed plainly that they did not enjoy the sight. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We heard the firing and confusion very plainly here; we none of us slept. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He appeared to me as one among many other men, none of whose faces I could plainly discern. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• We see this plainly in our own children; we cannot tell whether a child will be tall or short, or what its precise features will be. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I found by their pointing towards me and to each other, that they plainly discovered me, although they made no return to my shouting. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I show too plainly. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I see it as plainly as you do--as plainly as Laura sees it, though she says nothing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Now tell me plainly, do you remember anything strange of me, after I had gone to bed at night? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The further I look into this matter, the more plainly I see it is entirely out of the common order of things. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I must put it plainly, Mr. Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• One may then speak plainly in her presence? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He cannot do so, she tells him, too plainly or too briefly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Plainly, like all changes of government, from division in the rulers. Plato. The Republic.
• But we have already seen how it entails extinction; and how largely extinction has acted in the world's history, geology plainly declares. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Herncastle's fiery temper had been, as I could plainly see, exasperated to a kind of frenzy by the terrible slaughter through which we had passed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In the case of my misguided aunt, the form which pious perseverance was next to take revealed itself to me plainly enough. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I don't see that, said Clym, carefully concealing every clue to his own interrupted intention, which she plainly had not guessed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• To speak plainly, the electric impulses correspond in form and character to the sound vibration which they represent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Oliver saw, but too plainly, that resistance would be of no avail. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Her eyes moved uneasily from object to object in the room, betraying plainly that she suspected what my purpose was in coming to speak to her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Plainly dressed, very quiet, very pretty. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• More pliable under change than her sister, Laura showed more plainly the progress made by the healing influences of her new life. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• From Thomasin's words and manner he had plainly gathered that Wildeve neglected her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I will reply to it as briefly and plainly as possible. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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