Vaguely

Examples

• It left him, however, vaguely uneasy, and Mrs. Straker, waking at one in the morning, found that he was dressing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Clayton could not but notice it, and he wondered, vaguely, why she was so deeply moved--so anxious to know the whereabouts of this strange creature. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• In the valley, near the Acropolis, (the square-topped hill before spoken of,) Athens itself could be vaguely made out with an ordinary lorgnette. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Rosine came to the garden doorlamp in hand; she stood on the steps, lifting her lamp, looking round vaguely. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Perhaps, replied the poet vaguely. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• As we neared home, Joe vaguely acknowledging the occasion as an impressive and ceremonious one, went on ahead to open the front door. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The door was opened by a swarthy foreign-looking maid, with a prominent bosom under a gay neckerchief, whom he vaguely fancied to be Sicilian. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The blood-flowing had made Margaret conscious--dimly, vaguely conscious. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He would have held them to Gerald, but Gerald so definitely did not want to be offered a biscuit, that Loerke, rather vaguely, put the box aside. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And one tiny figure moved over the vaguely-illuminated space. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And at the best, how indefinite and unsatisfactory, only to know so vaguely what they are! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The arch and the Achilles statue were up since he had last been in Piccadilly; a hundred changes had occurred which his eye and mind vaguely noted. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There is one device suggested now and then, tried, I believe, in a few places, and vaguely championed by some socialists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• When one says chair, one thinks vaguely of an average chair. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• When I was at home expecting to be rich, I thought vaguely of all the great things I would do. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Still, for all that, the question had raised a conflict in his breast; and, for some odd reason or no reason, he was vaguely dissatisfied. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He was aware of smiling at her vaguely, and she added, as if condescending to his natural shyness: I've never seen May looking lovelier. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He was thankful for the fact, yet felt it to be vaguely ominous. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It was not his way to treat subjects coldly and vaguely; he rarely generalized, never prosed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Birkin lingered vaguely by the water. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• No one definition has satisfied all naturalists; yet every naturalist knows vaguely what he means when he speaks of a species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• There is only one meaning in this: the Commission realized vaguely that repression is not even the first step to a cure. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Halliday giggled, and lolled his head back, vaguely. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This is said to have been accomplished by Kircher, who, in his Prolusiones Magnetic?, describes, though very vaguely, the mode of operation. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It's like being in church, she reflected, wondering vaguely where Gwen Stepney had got such an awful hat. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I mounted it, and vaguely expected the odors of Araby a gain. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It continued to be a theme of curious interest to the imaginative, and the subject of much fiction, while its neglected commercial possibilities were still more or less vaguely referred to. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The Marquis of Worcester, in his Century of Inventions, also speaks vaguely of a mode of propelling ships. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Close to Europe was the continent of Africa, full of vaguely known possibilities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She knew what Birkin meant when he asked her to marry him; vaguely, without putting it into speech, she knew. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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