Severely

Examples

• In the meantime, the bowels must be severely pinched into obedience. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Villard has often been blamed and severely criticised, but he was not the only one to blame. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Maurice, replied Mrs Dengelton severely, unable to parry this attack, remember your cousin is in the room. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But he eyed me severely,--as if I had done anything to him! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The killed, and many of the severely wounded, of both armies, lay within this belt where it was impossible to reach them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mixed races produce mixed results, splendid, I own, in many cases, but not so severely unique and classic as would be the case with untamed tribes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I read those miraculous words with an emphasis which did them justice, and then I looked him severely in the face. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I never think of wit, said Dr. Carver severely. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Its strength has often been severely tested, as it has been sometime drawn up by ships' anchors, and considerably strained; but it has not been broken, and the insulation is almost perfect. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• God will not, I am sure, judge you so severely as you judge yourself, poor Eliza, I replied, and then left her. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Very many of the brave --th, who had suffered severely upon both days of action, were still at Brussels in the autumn, recovering of their wounds. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We find that later Babylonia severely limited the rights of property in slaves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I'm not aristocratic, but I do object to being seen with a person who looks like a young prize fighter, observed Jo severely. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I had suffered very severely and for a long time from this disease, while a boy in Ohio. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was suffering very severely with a sick headache, and stopped at a farmhouse on the road some distance in rear of the main body of the army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Miss Murdstone gave me her chilly finger-nails, and sat severely rigid. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• His was one of three veteran divisions that had been in battle, and its absence was severely felt. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You can, if you please, read the letter, said Mr. Casaubon, severely pointing to it with his pen, and not looking at her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The wheels of the engine passed over his leg and thigh, and he was so severely injured, that he expired in a few hours. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Severely painful, I said, with truth. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Wildeve had been brooding ever since they started on the mean estimation in which he was held by his wife's friends; and it cut his heart severely. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They can no longer be severely partisan. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Belmont was severely criticised in the North as a wholly unnecessary battle, barren of results, or the possibility of them from the beginning. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The honesty of Mr Sloppy being severely taxed by the question, he twisted a button, grinned, and faltered. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And severely she was punished for it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He left it contrary to my wish and command; and in the days of Alfred that would have been termed disobedience--ay, and a crime severely punishable. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• You saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• He had been severely bitten by a m ad dog. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• As I am punished for it severely, try to forgive it! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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