Wonderfully
['wʌndɚfəli]
Definition
(adv.) (used as an intensifier) extremely well; 'her voice is superbly disciplined'; 'the colors changed wondrously slowly'.
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Examples
- So it is with the wonderfully complex jaws and legs of crustaceans. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Although twenty-one years of age, and of full growth, the phonograph is ever a wonderfully new and impressive device. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I do not know what it means, but it sounds wonderfully charming. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The growth of steam navigation during the present generation has been wonderfully rapid. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Wonderfully clever, I dare say, but my own experience was dead against it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His whole material and immaterial life is wonderfully strange; his death, the strangest thing of all. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We got hot brandy and water, and it revived us wonderfully. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Not that I ought to complain about the club; every one has been so wonderfully kind. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Little Mr. Perker came out wonderfully, told various comic stories, and sang a serious song which was almost as funny as the anecdotes. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- 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.
- Lord, he's wonderfully like you! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You have been wonderfully good and kind to me,' said Bella, 'and I kiss it for that. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But Ursula only smiled wonderfully, and did not reply. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I think your scheme is a wonderful one, said Maurice, with great admiration; and wonderfully carried out. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Sch?ffer proved wonderfully adept at cutting type, and later at illuminating the initial letters that were needed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Those red-haired women look wonderfully well, replied the other. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Believe me,' returned the Secretary, 'you are wonderfully mistaken. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You are wonderfully placed here. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I had a son,' she said, curiously distressed, and not by any of the usual appearances of sorrow; 'and he did well, wonderfully well. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- One of the old ladies--Miss Noble, the aunt--is a wonderfully quaint picture of self-forgetful goodness, and Ladislaw gallants her about sometimes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The picture on the other hand was very beautiful to eyes weary of the changeless sea, and by and by the ship's company grew wonderfully cheerful. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His phlegm became him wonderfully. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- How wonderfully these sort of things occur! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- And you, Joe, look wonderfully well. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It examines the instincts that serve so wonderfully the survival of var ious species of insects. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- You speak English wonderfully well, Count, remarked the Rector politely. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You have followed me wonderfully! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- So we slanted to the right (where the East was), and Joe pounded away so wonderfully, that I had to hold on tight to keep my seat. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The Secretary kept silence for a little while; then merely said, 'You are wholly mistaken, Miss Wilfer; wonderfully mistaken. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She was looking wonderfully well when I quitted it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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