Really

Examples

• What do you think of the war really? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Is there really such a place? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Are you really rescued? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In the darkness which had now fallen none could tell but that he had really finished me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• This time he really looked annoyed. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Worcester declared that he looked forward to no hope nor rest until we should be really married. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And that money-winning business is really a blot. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She really seems to have a very good influence on young men. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And do you really know all this? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Can it be that you really don't know of it--how much she had always thought of you? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• And if they really are in trouble--well, it is my duty to help them out of it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Really, girls, you are both to be blamed, said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I really see no prospect of throwing any light whatever on this extraordinary affair. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• No, no; it must be something else if he were really vexed, Ladislaw is a sort of gypsy; he thinks nothing of leather and prunella. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Why, George, this state of mind is awful; it's getting really desperate George. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The capital of the country, though it might nominally be the same, would really be augmented. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The ladies were not really interested in Mrs. Struthers just then; the subject of Ellen Olenska was too fresh and too absorbing to them. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It is really wonderful to think of Rudolph still being alive, mused Mrs Dengelton, taking no notice of the Rector's historical explanation. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Ain't there really? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I think she is the only really happy woman I have ever met with. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But one thing was the stars, when I really understood something about the stars. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The drone said unaffectedly, You will excuse me; I really cannot attend to the shop! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I really am tired of it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But if you are really innocent and ignorant, I must be more explicit. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• What we call the rolling of thunder is really the reflection and re-reflection of the original thunder from cloud and cliff. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I should wish really to persuade you, I replied, if I could. Plato. The Republic.
• Does he really think he needs me, and can take an interest in me as a sister? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I told them, what I really thought, that the enquiry would be of a serious nature, and would require very good eyes. Plato. The Republic.
• But they could not really talk, because of the glassy ravel of women's excited, cold laughter and running voices. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Edited by Karl