Use altogether in a sentence
Sentences starting with altogether
- Altogether an attractive person, scholarly, refined has some accomplishments not so common as they might be in the class we call gentlemen, with an accent on the word. [6]
Sentences ending with altogether
- She kept up with tireless energy; and in the moments of dejection and misgiving which harassed her husband she remained dauntless, and put heart into him when he had lost it altogether. [8]
- The Parson, however, whose only experience of the theatre was the endurance of an oratorio once, was very cordial in his denunciation of the stage altogether. [4]
- And this is very singular in this humanitarian age, when excuse is found for nearly every moral delinquency in heredity or environment, that the greatest factor of discontent and crookedness, the weather, should be left out of consideration altogether. [4]
- It's rather thin, too thin altogether. [5]
- The only wonder to me is that I can still be merry at all; nor am I, except in your house, and not there even but when I forget him altogether. [10]
- But to yield to Hardin under present circumstances seems to me as nothing else than yielding to one who would gladly sacrifice me altogether. [7]
- If you were to count it up, I am sure you would find that we talk an hour at least, altogether. [9]
- You were not to blame altogether. [11]
- She was like the young summer beyond the open windows, alive to her finger-tips, shyly radiant, with shining eyes, yet in their depths an alluring pensiveness never to leave them altogether. [11]
- I don't mean the worst ones, not altogether. [4]
Short sentences using altogether
- Was she altogether sure? [11]
- Was she altogether soulless? [11]
- You shall be safe altogether. [11]
- It was fifty pounds altogether. [11]
- Not altogether, but nearly that. [5]
- That's a different matter altogether. [5]
- That's different altogether from us. [11]
- It is not contrast altogether. [4]
- Is the sky altogether overcast? [10]
- The show was altogether lovely. [6]
Sentences containing altogether two or more times
- This leads me to what I chiefly wanted to say in this paper, to the cause of discontent which seems to me altogether the most serious, altogether the most difficult to deal with. [4]
- Therefore, no reader can possibly know where I was in earnest and where I was joking; or whether I was joking altogether or in earnest altogether. [5]
- I'm afraid I am not altogether well, not altogether happy. [11]
More example sentences with the word altogether in them
- I should know you for a philosopher, without such persistent silence; and as for myself, I am not altogether bereft of curiosity, in spite of my eighty years. [10]
- But, what was worst of all, he could not regard himself as altogether free from the reproach of having accepted a reward for the service he had so thoughtlessly rendered. [10]
- It is no wonder that when there came a vast deal to reprove, the bonne desisted altogether, overwhelmed by the weight of it. [11]
- Negroes and farmers' wives took to the woods when the buggy came upon them suddenly, and altogether the drive was pleasant and animated, and a refreshment all around. [5]
- These victims, together with the captains and owners, presently ceased to laugh altogether, and began to rage about the revenge they would take when the passing business 'spurt' was over. [5]
- This power, combined with a fine intellectual and indomitable energy, and a taste altogether military, constituted in him, as seemed to me, the best natural talent in that department I ever knew. [7]
- Any one who will read his speech of the 22d of last March will see that he there makes an open confession, showing that he set about fixing the institution upon an altogether different set of principles. [7]
- It was wonderful--the whole thing; and altogether the most ingenious and laborious and cheerful and painstaking practical joke I have ever heard of. [5]
- The son; however, who was not of age, was more unworldly and sanctimonious than his father; he always addressed his parent as "Brother Plum," and bore himself, altogether in such a superior manner that Ruth longed to put bent pins in his chair. [5]
- Besides this feeling which absorbed her altogether and hindered her from following the details of her husband's plans, thoughts that had no connection with what he was saying flitted through her mind. [2]
- Even the gladiators were relaxing their ardour; and soon the arena was cleared altogether, for we were in the midst of a hurricane. [11]
- First her horses were driven almost at a gallop; then they were held down to a slow walk; then they were stopped altogether, and she sat in the shade of the trees on the road to her home, pondering--whispering to herself and pondering. [11]
- Some of them were altogether too much pleased with the success of the Temperance Society and the Association for the Relief of the Poor. [6]
- But presently they were altogether roused, the gun was put away, and both were on their feet; for after the pigeon arrived there was a stir at the Post, and Hilton could be seen running from the store to his house, not far away. [11]
- Ma says there were 10 hearses, with the fire companies (their engines in mourning--firemen in uniform,) the various benevolent societies in uniform and mourning, and a multitude of citizens and strangers, forming, altogether, a procession of 30,000 persons! [5]
- The undersigned are well aware that this protest will be altogether unavailing with the majority of this body. [7]
- Once a cement water-pipe under ground at Stawell began to gradually reduce its output, and finally ceased altogether to deliver water. [5]
- And yet it was not altogether like home, either, because so many members of the family were away. [5]
- And yet it was not altogether displeasing. [4]
- But the face was drawn, the eyes were hard, and the look of him was altogether pinched. [11]
- Hide and seek was altogether too tame for her, a stake of life and death, or imprisonment or treasure, being a necessity. [9]
- But maybe it was altogether too delicate, for nobody ever perceived the satire part of it at all. [5]
- But yes, she was altogether sure. [11]
- But truly she was altogether a woman, and had good fortune. [11]
- The disrespect he was able to show the whole apartment by means of this joke strengthened him to say boldly to the superintendent that it was altogether too small; then he asked carelessly what the rent was. [8]
- Altogether, New South Wales received 83,000 in 53 years. [5]
- The play is vulgar melodrama, out of which has escaped altogether the refinement and the romantic idealism of the stirring romance of Dumas. [4]
- It is altogether voluntary on their part, and if they apprehend it will fall in their hands they will not take it. [7]
- Honora has a vivid remembrance of the impression the house made on her, with its polished floors and spacious rooms filled with a new and mysterious and altogether inspiring fashion of things. [9]
- It is a very narrow and unjust view of the practice of medicine, to suppose it to consist altogether in the use of powerful drugs, or of drugs of any kind. [6]
- It depends altogether upon the proposition that the States must, without the interference of the General Government, do all those things that pertain exclusively to themselves,--that are local in their nature, that have no connection with the General Government. [7]
- The handsome rake's unlimited dissipations were severely checked by his sufferings, but not altogether prevented, and on his return to Rome he continued to indulge in all the pleasures of life. [10]
- Altogether, 76 splits under 5 flags. [5]
- Philip, if the truth must be told, was not well satisfied with his western prospects, nor altogether with the people he had fallen in with. [5]
- We are altogether too sensational nowadays. [11]
- Algernon danced altogether too much with Honora,--so George informed his cousin. [9]
- I am altogether too much occupied with an important scientific investigation to devote any considerable part of an evening to star-gazing. [6]
- They throw altogether too much light. [5]
- It was altogether too good luck for him; but he had an uncomfortable conviction that he had a long path of penance to walk before he could hope to enjoy it. [11]
- Cut up altogether too badly in the examination instituted by the Trustees. [6]
- The struggle of to-day is not altogether for to-day; it is for a vast future also. [7]
- Two months salary to you two officers amounts altogether to $2,400--about one-eighth of your ten per cent. [5]
- My ride home to the town after noon was not altogether a pleasant one, by reason that icy rain poured from heaven in streams, mingled with snow. [10]
- Judge Douglas labors to show that it is one thing, while I think it is altogether different. [7]
- Not going forth to find men at all, they have proceeded altogether upon paper examinations and mental processes. [7]
- Take it altogether, though, it was a mighty hard trip. [5]
- In discussing these things in our little parliament we were not altogether unprejudiced, it must be confessed. [4]
- If one of them threatened to sink altogether under his burden, he was refreshed by the whip of one of the horsemen, who accompanied the caravan. [10]
- He paused at the words, and repeated them, and stopped altogether because no one was paying any attention to him. [9]
- Could I see the wind which had now risen stronger, and drove a few cloud-scuds across the sky, filling the night, somehow, with a longing that was not altogether born of reminiscence? [4]
- The dismissal of the teacher, indeed, was put down to a regrettable misconception on the part of "one of the prudential committee," who had confessed his mistake in "a manly and altogether praiseworthy speech. [9]
- I didn't finish the story, though I re-began it in several new ways, and spent altogether 70,000 words on it, then gave it up and threw it aside. [5]
- They were still the same men in the flesh and in the elements of their sensible nature, but their relation to the world and to life was altogether new. [10]
- For fifteen centuries, the recognition of this authority and power has been altogether exceptional. [5]
- They can bear the rain and the breezes, and be all the better for them; but perpetual contradiction is a pelting hailstorm, which spoils their growth and tends to kill them out altogether. [6]
- She lives in the open air altogether, because no door is large enough to admit her. [5]
- Perhaps it was the natural thing for him to do, but it was a most singular choice, curious freak, altogether. [5]
- Jones, on about the middle of February, backed out altogether, laying the blame chiefly on Mackay and the others, who, he said, had decided not to invest. [5]
- In one letter the Major said he agreed with Mr. Hawkins that the inquirer seemed not altogether on the wrong track; but he also agreed that it would be best to keep quiet until more convincing developments were forthcoming. [5]
- It was altogether the livest-looking street we had seen in any village on the continent. [5]
- Now she forgot the insulting name altogether, and met the objections of her nurse by saying: "The fever cannot be much now; if you tell me something I shall not think so constantly of this atrocious pain. [10]
- Perhaps it was the importance she attached to her ancestry which made her impatient with their present position, and with people in the parish who would not altogether recognise their claims. [11]
- I walked into the house, and, "Why, Peggy," says I, "I declare we like to forgot you altogether. [7]
- Not altogether, for the false beard he had worn the night before lay beside the clothes. [11]
- This circumstance favored the efforts of the citizens trying to extinguish the fire, but Balbilla ascribed it to the foresight of her clever friend when the flames subsided in souse places and in others were altogether extinguished. [10]
- The fact that the day was lost was evidently brought home to those below, for the strife subsided gradually, and finally ceased altogether. [9]
- Miss Lucretia spent the day in her old home, submitting to hero-worship, and attended an evening party in her honor at Mr. Gamaliel Ives's house--a mansion not so large as the first citizen's, though it had two bay-windows and was not altogether unimposing. [9]
- It was not the confessional that attracted her, that was sure; perhaps not altogether the service, though that was soothing in certain moods; but it was the noble personality of Father Damon. [4]
- He discovers that the article has been left out of his own cargo altogether. [5]
- I cannot say that this will be altogether an evil, for the cost of calling medical aid may force people to take better care of themselves. [4]
- Soon I noticed that the "Sweet By and By" was gradually fading out; next it ceased altogether, and there was an ominous stillness. [5]
- A message came that she was dead to me; but I could not believe that it was so altogether, for I had knelt at her feet and worshipped her. [11]
- In the one that follows they seem to have made it--with certain results, perhaps not altogether amusing at the moment. [5]
- I offered to take upon myself this painful task; but she altogether rejected this, and how rightly she judged was presently proved by her cast-off suitor's demeanor; inasmuch as he was ever after her faithful servant and called her his gracious work-fellow. [10]
- Is not the system of the paper altogether a novel one? [14]
- I am not suspicious--still it does not altogether please me that you should yourself conduct Irene to Apollodorus, for if you are seen in her company our whole project may be shipwrecked. [10]
- A verse was sung, then a chorus altogether, then a refrain of one verse which was sung by each boat in succession to the last. [11]
- He has no such house, and he sends you to look at something altogether different, upon the well-ascertained principle that if you can't get what you want you will take what you can get. [8]
- But watch her, study her, and you will find her to be the perfection of a type--the finest expression of a decorous convention, a perfect product of social conservatism; unaffected, cheerful, sensitive, composed, very talented, altogether companionable. [11]
- She hated him; still, to lose sight of him altogether would be very hard to bear. [10]
- The lad was still living with his mother under the rich widow's roof, and only spent his working days at the governor's house, he was industrious and clever during office hours, though between whiles he busied himself with things altogether foreign to his future calling. [10]
- Some of his songs he had made himself: wild things, broken thoughts, not altogether human; the language of a world between man and the spirits. [11]
- It was a somewhat novel way of, visiting resorts of this nature; there are those to whom it will seem altogether more agreeable than would be the visiting of them in person. [4]
- That dinner set, somehow, was always an augury of festival--when, on the rare occasions Aunt Mary entertained, the little dining room was transformed by it and the Leffingwell silver into a glorified and altogether unrecognizable state, in which any miracle seemed possible. [9]
- He seemed altogether so thin, small, and pathetic. [2]
- He shed them so thick they kind of clogged up the air, and altogether he shed seventeen suits. [5]
- Was it altogether so melancholy as it might seem? [4]
- Altogether, sixty-five pounds sixpence for a little thing like that. [5]
- He went on singing, wilder and wilder, and the thunder begun to mutter, and the wind to wheeze and moan among the ropes, and altogether it was awful. [5]
- Smith is altogether silent about his existence at this time. [4]
- Here on board ship a sweet gravity and a proud decorum--not altogether unnecessary--prevented her from being seen at once to the best advantage. [11]
- After a moment she said: "I think you're altogether right about it. [11]
- At the banquet she put off her shoes altogether, as the men did; hiding her feet at first however, and not displaying them till she thought the marks left on her tender skin by the straps of the sandals had completely disappeared. [10]
- I mean to settle here altogether next year...." Pierre looked silently and searchingly into Prince Andrew's face, which had grown much older. [2]
- Altogether, the outlook seemed bright to Mark Twain and his wife, during the first months of their marriage. [5]
- It did not seem to her to be quite as it should be, but perhaps she did not altogether understand the matter; she was so young and inexperienced. [10]
- I will only say, that the evidence appears to me altogether satisfactory that some most fatal series of puerperal fever have been produced by an infection originating in the matter or effluvia of erysipelas. [3]
- And who can say that some time, in the waiting and working future, this new light might not change life altogether for this faithful soul? [4]
- And George Augustus Sala came in at the last moment, just when I was about to go without compliments altogether. [5]
- There were many reasons for a delay, reasons which of course are never mentioned, but which it would seem that a New York judge sometimes must understand, when he grants a postponement upon a motion that seems to the public altogether inadequate. [5]
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