Smoothly

Examples

• Things went on for some time pretty smoothly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• All seems going smoothly, said the Demarch to Maurice, as they turned away. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• We looked at each other, and then we looked at the tide, oozing in smoothly, higher and higher, over the Shivering Sand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We come smoothly to thirdly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There is no railway out of London whereon the carriages run so smoothly, and on which the passengers are so conveniently accommodated, as on the Great Western. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• His boots were smoothly polished dull leather. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• For another fortnight, during which I had not once heard of Ebrington everything went on smoothly and charmingly. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The machine worked with hitches, not nearly so smoothly nor so efficiently as it should, but it did work; it gathered the grain in and it left it in good shape to be raked off the platform. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I understood you called yourself Count Caliphronas, replied Justinian smoothly, and, naturally, I give you that title. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I was wonderfully relieved to find that my aunt and Dora's aunts rubbed on, all things considered, much more smoothly than I could have expected. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He showed me one, a smoothly jagged piece of metal over a foot long. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Everything, however, went on smoothly, and was finally settled according to Charlotte's first sketch. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• You take it smoothly now, said I, but you were very serious last night, when you swore it was Death. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Suppose, when they are engaged, and everything is smoothly arranged for their marriage, that you should step between them and renew your suit? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I looked at the top of his head, his hair shiny and parted smoothly. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Half his destiny would then be determined, but the other half might not be so very smoothly wooed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The small bright lawn stretched away smoothly to the big bright sea. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She looked down at the mother-of-pearl opera-glass in her smoothly gloved hands, and said, after a pause: What do you do while May is away? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She smiled, said nothing, and with Hannah's help did their neglected work, keeping home pleasant and the domestic machinery running smoothly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• My affairs went on smoothly while a bachelor; but of late I have met with some difficulties, of which I take the freedom to give you an account. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Beth was there, laying the snowy piles smoothly on the shelves and exulting over the goodly array. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• A willing, working, soft hearted, not hard-headed fellow, Plornish took his fortune as smoothly as could be expected; but it was a rough one. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The cars slide as smoothly along as if they were on runners. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It's a very pleasant trait in a young man's character, very much so,' added Mr. Pell, smiling smoothly round, as he buttoned up the money. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• If I could have been habitually imposed upon, instead of habitually discerning the truth, I might have lived as smoothly as most fools do. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Karkov asked smoothly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The spring was rather strong but it worked smoothly. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• They were bent forward and moved smoothly, almost supernatu rally, along. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Other kinds of cutting machines are contrived, by which sheets of writing paper, when collected in quires, are squeezed tightly together, and their edges are smoothly and evenly cut. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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