Thoroughly

Examples

• She was not thoroughly comfortable herself. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Caliphronas turned pale, for he knew that Justinian was absolute ruler of Melnos, while he was thoroughly well hated by the inhabitants, one and all. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• If you will, for once in your life, remember that you are mortal, perhaps you will thoroughly understand him too. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I know none whose knowledge, sagacity, and impartiality qualify him so thoroughly for such a service as yours do you. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Just let him be sent to the calaboose a few times, and thoroughly dressed down! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Are you any fresher now, or do you want the iron candlestick to wake you thoroughly? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Very thoroughly done,' replied the gentleman, as he took his hat from her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was a pleasure to feel how thoroughly she respected him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• This happens to be a thoroughly Greek attitude. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Nothing more they found, and it was a thoroughly awed and frightened group of savages which huddled around their king a few moments later. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on whom I can thoroughly rely. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The railroads, of course, were thoroughly destroyed on the way. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The poor woman was at first too much confused and agitated to understand thoroughly what I said to her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They discussed the matter thoroughly but arrived at no solution. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Before she had gone a quarter of a mile both passengers and observers on the shore were satisfied that the steamboat was a thoroughly practicable vessel. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I mean as regarding Caliphronas; he is physically perfect, thoroughly healthful, and yet you can hardly call him intellectual. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• When once I am thoroughly estranged, I cannot help being severe. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Venn, thoroughly weary, then shut his door and flung himself down to sleep. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Consequently she is like a thoroughly fine day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The walls were carefully sounded, and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was also thoroughly examined, with the same result. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I am naturally very strong; yet I have been thoroughly shaken lately by an accumulation of trouble. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• They understood each other so thoroughly by this time, that I fully expected to see them walk off together, arm in arm, to be married. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The Edison system of lighting was as beautifully conceived down to the very details, and as thoroughly worked out as if it had been tested for decades in various towns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Except for Napoleon it seems to have been a thoroughly commonplace, hungry family. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She disliked the Grammar School already thoroughly, she wanted to be free. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In using the compound it is applied locally in the usual manner by means of the fingers or any material by which the application can be thoroughly effected. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I honour that part of the attention particularly; it shews it to have been so thoroughly from the heart. Jane Austen. Emma.
• No third person listening could have thoroughly understood the impetuosity of Will's repulse or the bitterness of his words. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Typist: Toni