Seriously

Examples

• Mr. Jarndyce took great pains to talk with him seriously and to put it to his good sense not to deceive himself in so important a matter. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You cannot seriously wish me to stay idling at home all day? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Seriously hoping that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life, I subscribe myself, etc. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In other words, Edison's real work has seldom been seriously discussed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Sir Percival looked seriously embarrassed and distressed, Mr. Fairlie stretched out his lazy legs on his velvet footstool, and said, Dear Marian! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• After all, who can take the nationalisation of Ireland seriously? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Now, Teddy, I want to talk seriously to you about tomorrow, began Jo, as they strolled away together. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It is strange that he should have told you the truth,' says Mrs Lammle, seriously pondering. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This was Susan herself, occupied in preparing a posset for her little boy, who, often ailing, was now seriously unwell. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But I can't take it very seriously. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Richard, she said as seriously. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Yet no one would seriously maintain that the West is more progressive because it has progressive laws. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I was in hopes there would be act the fourth, retorted I; but, seriously, what do you understand by a scene? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Such constitutional monarchists as General Lafayette were seriously alarmed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For many precious generations the new-lit fires of the human intelligence were to be seriously banked down by this by-product. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Is it possible that you seriously wish to avoid all this impertinence? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• No, he said, seriously now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Mrs. Hilton Cubitt was seriously injured, and is at death's door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Take things a little seriously, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Why, seriously, Mr. Boultby, continued I, take my word, she has no fancy for you. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• However did I come to take him seriously at all! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There was nothing coquettish in her demeanour; whatever she felt for Moore she felt it seriously. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She also did not take these things very seriously. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She had never been admitted before to be seriously ill. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I care for her seriously. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If you consider it right to mention them to Rick and Ada, looking seriously at me, you can. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And should an immortal being seriously think of this little space rather than of the whole? Plato. The Republic.
• The men in green all forsook England a hundred years ago, said I, speaking as seriously as he had done. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• When a woman has been seriously wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom is a broken bell wire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Indeed, Ma'am, said Elinor, very seriously, you are mistaken. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.

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