Use indirectly in a sentence
Sentences starting with indirectly
- Indirectly he owed to Claridge Pasha all that he had become. [11]
- Indirectly this vast struggle in which thousands of lives were being lost had come through his wife's disloyalty, however unintentional, or in whatever degree. [11]
Sentences ending with indirectly
- Does he mean to ignore the proposition so long and well established in law, that what you cannot do directly, you cannot do indirectly? [7]
- Well, I can't consent to that, directly or indirectly. [8]
- Since Grant has been entirely relieved by the fall of Vicksburg, by which Johnston is also relieved, it has seemed to me that your chance for a stroke has been considerably diminished, and I have not been pressing you directly or indirectly. [7]
More example sentences with the word indirectly in them
- For Carmen, dining with Mrs. Schuyler Blunt was a distinct gain, and indirectly opened many other hitherto exclusive doors. [4]
- But the fossil went on as before, known by name to the merest handful of people in the colony, though they all profited, directly or indirectly, by his scientific services. [11]
- Indirectly, it dwelt upon the steadiness and manliness of Frank's character; directly, lightly, and without rhetoric, it enlarged upon their own comradeship. [11]
- Standing as a unit among yourselves, You can, directly and indirectly, bribe enough of our men to carry the day, as you could on the open proposition to establish a monarchy. [7]
- Even the partial transmission of virtuous tendencies would be an immense assistance to the primary impulse derived directly and indirectly from the social instincts. [1]
- Leaving her mainly to herself, she could be to some extent indirectly influenced,--not otherwise. [6]
- Now, as to this indirect mode by "unfriendly legislation," all lawyers here will readily understand that such a proposition cannot be tolerated for a moment, because a legislature cannot indirectly do that which it cannot accomplish directly. [7]
- From these observations, there can, I think, be no doubt that residence during many generations at a great elevation tends, both directly and indirectly, to induce inherited modifications in the proportions of the body. [1]
- Afterwards, however, as the Partners all talked together up-stairs, the enormity of the dead man's crime had fastened on him, and his brain had been stunned by the terrible thought that directly or indirectly Jasmine had abetted the crime. [11]
- Mr. Bain states, that, "sympathy is, indirectly, a source of pleasure to the sympathiser"; and he accounts for this through reciprocity. [1]
- We have now seen that man is variable in body and mind; and that the variations are induced, either directly or indirectly, by the same general causes, and obey the same general laws, as with the lower animals. [1]
- The maternal, the protective sense was big in her, and indirectly it had governed her life. [11]
- Nevertheless, it is probable that conspicuous colours are indirectly beneficial to many species, as a warning that they are unpalatable. [1]
- Though it was pointed out to them by the astute Gow Johnson that Fergus and Holden had participated in the colossal joke of the play, they had learned indirectly also the whole truth concerning the past of the two men. [11]
- We must contemplate our Maker indirectly in human attributes as we talk of Him in human parts of speech. [3]
- The modification, therefore, of the basal caudal vertebrae in man and the higher apes may have been effected, directly or indirectly, through natural selection. [1]
- In her heart of hearts she was sure he had done it directly or indirectly for her sake; and that was infinitely more to her than that he should stoop from the heights to pick her up. [11]
- Mr. Worthington did not deem it dignified or necessary to state that the railroad to which he referred was the Truro Railroad; and that he, as the largest stockholder, might indirectly share that prosperity with Brampton. [9]
- Although he had not been told it, he realised that, indirectly, hunger was the cause of the crime and might easily become the cause of another; for their tempers were sharper even than their appetites. [11]
- This was not merely necessary to save him from the importunities of cranks who might carry concealed dynamite arguments, but as well to protect him from hundreds of business men with whom he was indirectly dealing, and with whom he wished to evade explanations. [4]
- They have given me a chance of showing to the world life as I have seen it, and indirectly, and perhaps indistinctly, my own ideas of that life. [11]
- The "Free Soil" mart in claiming that name indirectly attempts a deception, by implying that Whigs were not Free Soil men. [7]
- I therefore think it is safer, when a practical question arises, to decide that question directly, and not indirectly by deciding a general abstraction supposed to include it, and also including a great deal more. [7]
- Should you succeed in reestablishing St. John's on what you call a free basis --and in my opinion you will not--even then the money, you would live on, and which supported the church, would be directly or indirectly derived from corporations. [9]
- A single impression, in a very early period of atmospheric existence,--perhaps, indirectly, before that period, as was said to have happened in the case of James the First of England,--may establish a communication between this centre and the heart which will remain open ever afterwards. [6]
- I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution in the States where it exists. [7]
- As a man, he shrank from confessing to her, however indirectly, the fact that she herself was so vital an element in his disillusionment. [9]
- This man--John Brown--had gone down before his old ironical questioning, had been, indirectly, the means of disgracing his name. [11]
- And I felt for a moment hard against Roscoe, that he should even indirectly and involuntarily, bring suffering into her life. [11]
- This was the first time, since recovering consciousness, that he had referred, even indirectly, to all that had happened. [11]
- I have now endeavoured to shew that some of the most distinctive characters of man have in all probability been acquired, either directly, or more commonly indirectly, through natural selection. [1]
- Upon all these, during the siege, Mahommed Hassan had been a self- appointed spy, and had indirectly added to that knowledge which made David's decisive actions to circumvent intrigue and its consequences seem almost supernatural. [11]
- Whatever elements nature does not introduce into vegetables, the natural food of all animal life,--directly of herbivorous, indirectly of carnivorous animals,--are to be regarded with suspicion. [3]
- It always is directly hurtful; it may sometimes be indirectly beneficial. [3]
- For the government did indirectly occasion the dry spell. [4]
- Then let the country give us a hundred thousand new troops in the shortest possible time, which, added to McClellan directly or indirectly, will take Richmond without endangering any other place which we now hold, and will substantially end the war. [7]
- The Richmond party approached the discussion rather indirectly, and at no time did they either make categorical demands, or tender formal stipulations or absolute refusals. [7]
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