Usually

Examples

• A genius usually becomes the luminous center of a nation's crisis,--men see better by the light of him. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She usually followed him; but he heard her passing down the passage to her bedroom. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The sign Bell out of order is usually due to the fact that the battery is either temporarily or permanently exhausted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This was a class of plant which the inquirers desired to purchase outright and operate themselves, usually because of remoteness from any possible source of general supply of current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She was sitting near the window, with her head reclined on her hand, and appeared more than usually pensive. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Westminster Hall itself is a shady solitude where nightingales might sing, and a tenderer class of suitors than is usually found there, walk. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Trolley circuits are usually 500 volts, and will kill an animal, but are not necessarily fatal to man. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Her mother seemed more than usually feeble. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• This accounts for the phenomenon of the weaker of the two usually having a bundle of firewood thrust between its jaws in hot weather. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The holes, which usually are about a foot deep, are made by the crab persistently digging up and carrying away little masses of mud or sand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Halloa being a general observation which I had usually observed to be best answered by itself, I said, Halloa! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• If steel was wanted a small amount of carbon, usually in the form of spiegeleisen, was introduced into the converter before the process was complete. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Any private hours in her day were usually spent in her blue-green boudoir, and she had come to be very fond of its pallid quaintness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Martin, I say, disliked Sunday, because the morning service was long, and the sermon usually little to his taste. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The back of his ware is never all the same color, but usually mottled with several colors, often yellow, blue, and brown. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Presently he stopped and picked out a square piece of board, such as is usually left to enable plumbers to get at the joints of the gas-pipes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He had played nearly every day at one club or other, but he was a cautious player, and usually rose a winner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Her usually quiet breathing had grown quicker with his words. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• An enormous quantity of sodium carbonate, or soda, as it is usually called, is needed in the manufacture of glass, soap, bleaching powders, and other commercial products. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A servant came in with Mr. Moore's candle and tea; for the tutor and his pupil usually dined at luncheon time. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Most people know what sort of places commercial rooms usually are. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Usually her welcome was a reprimand or a threat. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• His figures, which usually dealt with historical, mythological, or allegorical subjects, were executed in relief, and colored. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It stopped, and a well-known nasal voice cried aloud, Boy (probably addressing Harry Scott, who usually hung about the premises from 9 a. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Their geese and turkeys I usually ate at a mouthful, and I confess they far exceed ours. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Mr. Rushworth, however, though not usually a great talker, had still more to say on the subject next his heart. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Whatever they could prove (which is usually anything you like), they proved there, in an army constantly strengthening by the arrival of new recruits. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I preserve, too, and in the pheasant months I usually have a house-party, so that it would not do to be short-handed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• These springs are usually the result of water flowing over a deposit of salt rock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But ladies in carriages would frequently make purchases from her trifling stock, and were usually pleased with her bright eyes and her hopeful speech. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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