Positively

Examples

• Positively not. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There was something positively exasperating in Bertha's attitude of isolated defiance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Positively not once, yet! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• No, dear friend, in the interests of peace and quietness, positively No! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I said, 'You positively refuse to try the stimulant treatment? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In that case there is no need for me to write about the trumpery scandal by which I was the sufferer--the innocent sufferer, I positively assert. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She had positively refused to take to her bed; on the ground that if she did, she would never hear the last of it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The execution was very great, as we could see at the time and as I afterwards learned more positively. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I said, “My dear, here's Doctor Strong has positively been and made you the subject of a handsome declaration and an offer. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Positively, it's too much to ask of a man. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It had not positively amounted to a desire, but it had always been a favourite dream. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Positively Idols! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Bless my soul, how remarkable--I am going outside, too,' said the red- haired man; 'we are positively going together. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There are hundreds of people here, that I must positively introduce you to. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• These latter rolls were also face-lined with chilled-iron plates; but, unlike the larger ones, were positively driven, reducing the rock to pieces of about one-half-inch size, or smaller. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She had not tried to see Dorset alone: she had positively shrunk from a renewal of his confidences. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The only member of our small society who positively refused to adapt himself to circumstances, was Jip. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• We are positively corrupting people. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I'm expected to take hints, not to give them: I've positively lived on them all these last months. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The proprietor had left the town with all his goods and chattels, and where he had gone I could not positively ascertain from any one. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I think there's a pain somewhere in the room,' said Mrs. Gradgrind, 'but I couldn't positively say that I have got it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I told him I could not answer then positively but would try and inform him before a great while. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I assert it positively--when he took his seat in the omnibus, he blushed! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There, at least, is one method of sexual expression which may have positively beneficent results. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Yes, positively revel in. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Mrs. Jellyby positively laughed at the fancy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You positively refuse, then, to give me your signature? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My dear Miss Vermont, positively you mustn't come the Green Mountains over us that way. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The physician positively assured us that Miss Halcombe was out of danger. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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