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Sentences starting with generally

Generally they returned with packs of skins. [9]
Generally get some visiting lady, when there's one round, to drop the Go-devil. [8]
Generally he inclined to leniency; but breaking into a house was punishable with death, and in this instance it was but right to show no mercy, out of deference to the Arab merchant. [10]
Generally a man says, 'Well, I can resist, but I'll have my fun just this once. [9]
Generally a natural rhythm runs through the whole organization: quick pulse, fast breathing, hasty speech, rapid trains of thought, excitable temper. [6]
Generally the toy represents twins, so swathed and bound; and, not infrequently, the bold conception of the artist carries the point of the humor so far as to introduce triplets, thus sporting with the most dreadful possibilities of life. [4]
Generally speaking, he prefers bright tints to darker ones, but his likes and dislikes are capricious, and with regard to some colors his antipathy amounts to positive horror. [6]
Generally she did not fancy Englishmen, and this one she liked neither better nor worse because he had a title. [4]
Generally there is no thought about it. [4]
Generally when a man dies who is worth cabling, it happens that I have run across him somewhere, some time or other. [5]

Sentences ending with generally

I am persistently undervalued, wronged, and imposed upon by mankind and the powers of the universe generally. [6]
The book seems to me clever, interesting, very amusing, and likely to please generally. [14]
I finally determined to fire at him generally. [4]
The masters are these: nobles, rich men, the prosperous generally. [5]
I remember not the quaint wording of it, save that it was ill-spelled and ill-writ generally. [9]
It will be the inevitable result that these young ladies, setting themselves apart for a period to the intellectual life, will raise the standard of the young men, and of married life generally. [4]
The disuse of the apprentice system is not made good by the present system of education, because no one learns a trade well, and the consequence is poor work, and a sham civilization generally. [4]
Had Lali been subservient simply, an entirely passive, unintelligent creature, she would probably have tyrannised over her in a soft, persistent fashion, and despised her generally. [11]
There are two sorts of success in letters as in life generally. [4]
This brilliant company separated into several groups who all discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the position, the state of the army, the plans suggested, the situation of Moscow, and military questions generally. [2]

Short sentences using generally

And she generally hits it. [4]
He's generally drunk enough. [5]
And generally they do not. [4]
Sir Duke was amused generally. [11]
Hawaiian Population Generally. [5]
What generally? [7]
Not generally. [5]

Sentences containing generally two or more times

On paper he was generally right; in practice, generally wrong. [11]
This is not generally believed, because it is not generally believed that the chief end of man is the accumulation of intellectual and spiritual material. [4]

More example sentences with the word generally in them

This fact of yours, which seems so strange to you, belongs to a great series of similar facts familiarly known now to many persons, and before long to be recognized as generally as those relating to the electric telegraph and the slaving `dynamo. [6]
When we are young we generally estimate an opinion by the size of the person that holds it, but later we find that that is an uncertain rule, for we realize that there are times when a hornet's opinion disturbs us more than an emperor's. [5]
Nobody could tell you how to find any place in the kingdom, for nobody ever went intentionally to any place, but only struck it by accident in his wanderings, and then generally left it without thinking to inquire what its name was. [5]
Two or three years ago, in New York, with that Society there which is made up of people from all British Colonies, and from Great Britain generally, who were educated in British colleges and. [5]
November 30th that year was Mark Twain's fiftieth birthday, an event noticed by the newspapers generally, and especially observed by many of his friends. [5]
During flight, moths would often be able to escape from their enemies; nevertheless, as the hind-wings are then fully exposed to view, their bright colours must generally have been acquired at some little risk. [1]
I believe they would not, in fact, generally know it but for your misrepresentations of us in their hearing. [7]
So again, species within the same large genus by no means resemble each other to the same degree: on the contrary, some of them can generally be arranged in little groups round other species, like satellites round planets. [1]
The sentiments expressed with reference to liquor are not, however, those generally entertained by this community. [6]
The sidewalks swarmed with people--to such an extent, indeed, that it was generally no easy matter to stem the human tide. [5]
It was rather with a tremulous interest than with open hilarity that the rumor was generally received. [6]
My renewed good wishes to her in particular, and generally to all such of your relations who know me. [7]
The amount of wine he had drunk to-day would generally have had no more effect upon him than water, and yet he had felt now and then as if he were drunken, and the whole festal hall turned round with him. [10]
He plays to win, and generally does. [4]
Blind people generally who have seen the light know what it is to miss the light. [5]
Many a man who has come into some property after he has sold all his little antiquities has offered me ten times the price I have paid him to get them back again, generally in vain, unfortunately. [10]
A well-known writer, who had spent some weeks at Arrowhead Village, was generally suspected of being its author. [6]
The big dinner-parties which are commonly made to pay off social debts are generally of the sort that one would rather contribute to in money than in personal attendance. [4]
He knew that when men live lives of patient, gloomy vigilance, they generally have something to watch and guard. [11]
It was just what the minister got --no, it was what he was promised--he generally couldn't collect it. [5]
We know they were generally, perhaps universally, as good and true Whigs as we ourselves claim to be. [7]
Though the two were generally at a distance, their existence made itself felt again and again either through letters or presents or by their coming to Berlin, which always brought holidays for us. [10]
Honora, when she went to town for the day, generally could be sure of finding some one, at least, of the Holt family at home at luncheon time. [9]
Hardly a month went by without one of these tramps arriving; and generally loaded with a tale about some princess or other wanting help to get her out of some far-away castle where she was held in captivity by a lawless scoundrel, usually a giant. [5]
It means, generally, weight and height, an advantage in a scrimmage. [11]
Those in the wealthy quarter are spacious; painted snow-white usually, and generally have wide verandas, or double-verandas, supported by ornamental columns. [5]
Fulkerson said it was not often the colonel found such a good listener; generally nobody listened but Mrs. Leighton, who thought his ideas were shocking, but honored him for holding them so conscientiously. [8]
Even Diodoros, who was not generally given to silent meditation, had his own thoughts to pursue; and so they walked on in silence till suddenly they heard a dull murmur of voices. [10]
Hearing that Bezukhov was in Orel, Willarski, though they had never been intimate, came to him with the professions of friendship and intimacy that people who meet in a desert generally express for one another. [2]
Such a tumult was generally odious to her retiring nature; but to-night she felt herself merely one drop in the great, flowing river, of which every other drop felt the same impulse which was carrying her forward to her destination. [10]
Mrs. Falchion's name was generally connected with--your fancies.... [11]
After hearing what was being said by one or other of these groups he generally turned away with an air of disappointment, as though they were not speaking of anything he wished to hear. [2]
It generally has vines climbing over it. [5]
The cholera generally vanquishes a Neapolitan when it seizes him, because, you understand, before the doctor can dig through the dirt and get at the disease the man dies. [5]
Worms were generally used in those days for the slaying of particularly wicked people. [5]
She generally makes us uneasy when she begins to tune up on her fine-writing timbrel. [5]
Howells was always urging him to send something to the Atlantic, declaring a willingness to have his name appear every month in their pages, and Clemens was generally contributing some story or sketch. [5]
They are of two sorts: the domestic story, entirely unidealized, and as flavorless as water-gruel; and the spiced novel, generally immoral in tendency, in which the social problems are handled, unhappy marriages, affinity and passional attraction, bigamy, and the violation of the seventh commandment. [4]
We used to try to guess out the nationalities, and generally succeeded tolerably well. [5]
None save the truly great possess it (but this is not generally known). [9]
When Mrs. Eddy tries to be artful--in literature--it is generally after the manner of the ostrich; and with the ostrich's luck. [5]
The lictors and townwatch could generally succeed in parting the combatants, for the orders of the authorities were that they should in every case side with the Romans. [10]
Applying the principle to your case, my idea is that Halleck shall menace Columbus and "down river" generally, while you menace Bowling Green and East Tennessee. [7]
If we add to them those at large who have served one or two terms, and are generally known to the police, we shall not have probably more than eighty thousand of the criminal class. [4]
When we came to the rendezvous, where picnic parties generally feasted, we found a fire still smoking and the remnants of a lunch scattered about. [11]
He generally says to the Colonel: --"Stop that noise, sir. [9]
He used generally to shuffle about in company with a little fellow that was fat on one side and lean on the other. [4]
Their tendency is to reject the truth which is generally accepted, and to accept the improbable; if the impossible offers itself, they deny the existence of the impossible. [6]
The phrases peculiar to other occupations serve him on rare occasions by way of description, comparison, or illustration, generally when something in the scene suggests them, but legal phrases flow from his pen as part of his vocabulary and parcel of his thought. [5]
It surprised me to notice, that, though there was every mark of hard fighting having taken place here, the Indian corn was not generally trodden down. [6]
Leaving this point, to notice another prominent consideration, which is generally one of great moment and of vital importance. [5]
She mainly writes to hurry me home and to tell me how much she respects me: but she's generally pretty slow on news. [5]
He is said to have had a hundred wives, and generally a dozen--the youngest--personally attending him. [4]
Gout, however, seems to fall under our rule, for it is generally caused by intemperance during manhood, and is transmitted from the father to his sons in a much more marked manner than to his daughters. [1]
We never tried to establish a watch at night again, as far as I remember, but we generally kept a picket out in the daytime. [5]
It is impossible to decide which of these three modes has generally prevailed throughout the present class of cases. [1]
Agrafena Ivanovna used to come to wake Natasha at three in the morning, but generally found her already awake. [2]
He exhorted us to be thankful that we were better off, but generally added that he would not exchange for anything in the world those days when he went barefoot. [10]
What is common to all men is generally disgustingly similar in the palace and in the hovel. [10]
Suicide during former times was not generally considered as a crime (33. [1]
Most eldest sons, though they may be weak in body or mind, marry, whilst the younger sons, however superior in these respects, do not so generally marry. [1]
The spur, in those gallinaceous birds which are thus provided, is generally single; but Polyplectron (Fig. [1]
The men of this region seemed to ride in the saddle very generally, rather than drive. [6]
The members of this party, chiefly civilians and to whom Arakcheev belonged, thought and said what men who have no convictions but wish to seem to have some generally say. [2]
It was on this paper that young Sam Clemens began his writings--burlesque, as a rule, of local characters and conditions --usually published in his brother's absence; generally resulting in trouble on his return. [5]
Women generally encourage this notion, and men by their gingerly treatment of it seemed to accept it. [4]
I can say this much, that if I do not love you, as the word is generally understood, I have a new respect for you, and a new affection, and I think that these will grow. [9]
Speaking generally, I think we may say that Haller's doctrine is the one now commonly received; namely, that the muscles contract in virtue of their own inherent endowments. [3]
What do you think of Lindau, generally speaking, Tom? [8]
You know, when they sink a well," he went on to the company, "they can't always most generally sometimes tell whether they're goin' to get gas or oil or salt water. [8]
I generally found there two or three sentimental young butchers, an eminently philosophical tinker, and several very unsophisticated medical practitioners or medical students, all of low origin and vulgar and offensive manners. [5]
We generally made them feel rather small, too, before we got done with them, because we bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them. [5]
They generally told their questioners what they wanted to know, if they could ascertain what sort of information would please them. [4]
The tendency of the young woman generally to simplicity, of the American young woman to a certain restraint (at least when abroad), to a deference to her elders, and to tradition, has been noted. [4]
But, speaking generally, the world is still young and growing, and a considerable portion of it unfinished. [4]
My report of the weather does not say much for the English May, but it is generally agreed upon that this is a backward and unpleasant spring. [6]
The Territories of the Union are generally in a condition of prosperity and rapid growth. [7]
Whether or not the two rules generally hold good, we may conclude from the facts given in the eighth chapter, that the period of variation is one important element in determining the form of transmission. [1]
And furthermore, when the time arrives for me to speak on this great subject, I hope I may say nothing to disappoint the people generally throughout the country, especially if the expectation has been based upon anything which I may have heretofore said. [7]
The criticisms upon the successive numbers as they came out were various, but generally encouraging. [6]
The condition of the several organized Territories is generally satisfactory, although Indian disturbances in New Mexico have not been entirely suppressed. [7]
In like manner the same form of transmission has generally prevailed under nature throughout the same groups, although marked exceptions to this rule occur. [1]
Mandane hurried to the room in which her mistress generally spent the evening. [10]
But, thank Heaven, the railway companies are generally disposed to do the right and kindly thing without--compulsion. [5]
But, thank Heaven, the railway companies are generally disposed to do the right and kindly thing without compulsion. [5]
The doctor asks the questions, generally, because he can keep his countenance, and look more like an inspired idiot, and throw more imbecility into the tone of his voice than any man that lives. [5]
It is true, the promises I have made are unknown to any but Ambulinia, and I think it unnecessary to here enumerate them, as they who promise the most generally perform the least. [5]
On this principle the President, his friends, and the world generally act on most subjects. [7]
The truth is, the possession of power by men or associations makes them selfish and generally cruel. [4]
Occasionally Gaston visited the menagerie, but generally after the performance, when Victorine had a half-hour's or an hour's romp with her animals. [11]
Speaking generally of the mass of business men--and the mass are business men in this country--have they any habit of reading books? [4]
The sight of the mansion always caused wonder and generally ignorant admiration. [4]
Nature was in the loveliest mood when it was created, and art has generally followed her suggestions of beauty and refinement. [4]
I throw in the land, because it would otherwise have stood idle: the thing generally raised on city land is taxes. [4]
Amasis was in the habit of observing most faithfully these daily-repeated ceremonies and hours of work; the remaining portion of the day he spent as it pleased him, and generally in cheerful society. [10]
This grandee was the grandson of an American of considerable note in his day, and not wholly forgotten yet--a man who came so near being a great man that he was quite generally accounted one while he lived. [5]
I don't defend the game of politics as it is played, Mr. Wetherell, but all of us who are friends of Jethro's are generally willing to lend a hand in any little manoeuvre that is going on, and have a practical joke when we can. [9]
He referred to the fact that the Emperor Napoleon had resented the demand that he should withdraw his troops from Prussia, especially when that demand became generally known and the dignity of France was thereby offended. [2]
And, speaking generally, the evidence of dying men in favor of any belief is to be received with great caution. [6]
The doctrines of the convertibility or specific equivalence of the various forms of force, and of its conservation, which is its logical consequence, are very generally accepted, as I believe, at the present time, among physicists. [3]

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