Utterly

Examples

• They are utterly dissimilar in all respects. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• His attempt had utterly failed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Or--mark my words--the Order of the Temple will be utterly demolished--and the Place thereof shall no more be known among the nations. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But the conclusion seems to me utterly unfounded. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• For on the theory, such strata must somewhere have been deposited at these ancient and utterly unknown epochs of the world's history. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Their training was legal and therefore utterly inadequate, but it was all they had. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It is possible that I am utterly mistaken. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Then Tars Tarkas had been with me, but now I was utterly alone in so far as friendly companionship was concerned. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Utterly confounded, Mr. George awhile stands looking at the knocker. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He would be able to destroy her utterly in the strength of his discharge. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The revolution collapsed utterly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I utterly distrust his morals, and it is my duty to hinder to the utmost the fulfilment of his designs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Many exotic plants have pollen utterly worthless, in the same condition as in the most sterile hybrids. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• His coarse, strong nature craved, and could endure, a continual stimulation, that would have utterly wrecked and crazed a finer one. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• His sufferings were hailed with the greatest joy by a knot of spectators, and I felt utterly confounded. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Accustomed as I was to Holmes's curious faculties, this sudden intrusion into my most intimate thoughts was utterly inexplicable. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But this year Shirley was to be with her, and that changed the aspect of the trial singularly--it changed it utterly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• No, no, my dear sir; such a course is utterly impossible. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• You'll only lose your own temper, and utterly confound Dinah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Yet, although unhappy, he is not so utterly occupied by his own misery, but that he interests himself deeply in the employments of others. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Mott was ordered to his assistance but failed utterly. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And the State which is enslaved under a tyrant is utterly incapable of acting voluntarily? Plato. The Republic.
• One might abandon oneself utterly to the MOMENTS, but not to any other being. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We could not and ought not to be rigidly bound by the rules laid down under circumstances so different for emergencies so utterly unanticipated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I remember once going in a lilac silk to see candles made, and my gown was utterly ruined. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• My search was utterly vain, yet I did not despond. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She had to bear all the blame of his misdoings, and indeed was so utterly gentle and humble as to be made by nature for a victim. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But Joshua fell upon them and utterly destroyed them, root and branch. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was a brilliant elucidation of what had been utterly perplexing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Osborn