Separately
['sep(ə)rətlɪ] or ['sɛprətli]
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. Distinctly, singly, apart.
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Examples
- Then they descended separately among the people. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Let them bring the ice separately. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Or the Nordic peoples also may have developed separately from a pal?olithic stage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They called at various times of the morning, sometimes separately, sometimes together, and now and then accompanied by their aunt. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She shall wring them all out of me slowly and separately--only by confession, penitence, entreaty. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He would then commence his purchases, paying for each article separately, as he got it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They were in all probability made by human communities quite out of touch with the Aryans, separately and independently. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But this table, which is present to me, and the chimney, may and do exist separately. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Upright pieces of wood, _d h_, _e f_, at each end, are furnished with slides or clips to hold the drawings, which are reflected from the inclined mirrors, and seen in them by each eye separately. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Professor Wheatstone and Mr. Bain separately attempted to accomplish this desired object by the invention of Printing Telegraphs, which print messages from types. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- We have been examined together, as well as separately, to assist the police. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I was usually at Hammersmith about half the week, and when I was at Hammersmith I haunted Richmond, whereof separately by and by. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Ignominy, Want, Despair, and Madness, have, collectively or separately, been the attendants of my career. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They could, therefore, be sold with it, but not separately. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There are two sides to this matter, and I'll take 'em separately. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The principles of many of these devices are still used in the arts, but have become so incorporated in other devices as to be inseparable, and cannot now be dealt with separately. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This diagram represents the outlines of a near object, as seen by each eye separately. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In the days when all these things are to be answered for, I summon your brother, the worst of the bad race, to answer for them separately. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- We were all going to follow, and were all in course of being tied up separately (by Trabb) into ridiculous bundles. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Formerly they had to be carried separately, but the new arrangement was a great convenience and made the matchlock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Others for making splints and the matches separately, quickly followed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The extension of these arms on one side or the other, either separately or together, and at different angles, constituted a variety of signals sufficient for the purposes of communication. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Each king was separately elected. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You are separately represented, and no longer hidden and lost in the interests of others. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It has both a benzine motor and an electric motor, which can be worked separately or together, and yet is said to be lighter than most electric carriages. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They searched every nook and corner round, together and separately; they shouted, whistled, laughed, called--and all with the same result. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- After quieting Lady Glyde by the necessary assurances about her sister, I introduced my friends separately to her presence. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Experience is an aggregate of more or less isolated particulars, acquaintance with each of which must be separately made. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- That’s an improvement, he said to his wife, for I can draw the picture and the letters better separately, and if I want I can use different colored inks for printing the two parts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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