Simply

Examples

• We treat it simply as a privation because we are measuring it by adulthood as a fixed standard. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• If for a generation or so machinery has had to wait its turn in the mine, it is simply because for a time men were cheaper than machinery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The list would be too long to simply name all the ingenious machines there exhibited and subsequently invented for every important operation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I shall go with you, said Clayton simply. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She had not thought of her own situation at all: she was simply engrossed in trying to put a little order in theirs. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Now she was simply ripening into a copy of her mother, and mysteriously, by the very process, trying to turn him into a Mr. Welland. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Pablo did not answer; he simply shook his head again and nodded toward the door. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I simply tell you that I am in a strait. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• My existence will be simply unendurable to me, unless I do something towards clearing my character at once. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• No, she answered simply. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• But it's no joke, you know--if she stays here all the autumn she'll spoil everything, and Maria Van Osburgh will simply exult. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I have made these few remarks on trees simply to call attention to the subject. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Why, Count, since you have come to Roylands, the weather has been simply perfection. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But the thinker, the man who devotes himself to scientific inquiry and philosophic speculation, works, so to speak, in reason, not simply by *. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Simply, 'that he has received the letter, and will come. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I like to take this fruit to the poor mother, and it is simply right that I should. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Mr. Fairlie had simply justified my expectations--and there was an end of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I am simply blighted--like a damaged ear of corn--the business is done and can't be undone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The spinning machine is simply an improved form of Crompton's mule, already described. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Most of the remainder of children's alleged native egoism is simply an egoism which runs counter to an adult's egoism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You can speak of her in that measured way, as simply a beautiful creature--only something to catch the eye. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She was pleased that he said, so simply, that she was a remarkable woman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It is simply my ardour, dear Eustacia. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Simply, the discovery of Oliver's parentage, and regaining for him the inheritance of which, if this story be true, he has been fraudulently deprived. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It consisted simply in the hiring of quiet lodgings at Brompton, or in the neighbourhood of the barracks, for Captain and Mrs. Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I thought you knew, she said simply. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Not at all, said Lydgate, I was simply explaining my own action. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• His concentration broke, he began to look at her simply and naturally. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There's no great merit in that, sir, said Mrs. Clements simply. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Thou art simply deaf. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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