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Sentences ending with lightly

Please don't treat what I've said lightly. [11]
He was reaching up to read it when the Doctor touched him lightly. [6]
It was not unexpected, yet his brief report fell heavily on the heart of Els, which had just ventured to beat gaily and lightly. [10]
Hence we must touch upon these tragedies lightly. [9]
If it was to your credit, even if they believe you guilty of killing Erris Boyne, they'd touch you lightly. [11]
As Faith said to him once, "David, thee looks as though thee could lift great weights lightly. [11]
There was a subtlety in the woman before her not to be reckoned with lightly. [11]
At least those sort of folks are often built askew, as that scoundrel was," replied Alexander, lightly. [10]
Of course, the sixty-six articles were just a rehash of the things which had come up in the course of the previous trials, so I will touch upon this new trial but lightly. [5]
There was a silence, in which the pines sighed lightly. [11]

Short sentences using lightly

The General slept lightly. [9]
Pain they took lightly. [9]
It would not be lightly. [4]
He laughed lightly. [11]

Sentences containing lightly two or more times

That is a very large merit, and should not be lightly weighted nor lightly thought of. [5]

More example sentences with the word lightly in them

As the bold young woman tapped Gombert lightly on the arm and, with fresh words of invitation, pointed toward the counter, a shiver ran through Barbara's limbs. [10]
I am glad you told me my faults plainly in private, for in your public notice you touch on them so lightly, I should perhaps have passed them over thus indicated, with too little reflection. [14]
And I ask you to believe it is not done lightly, or without due consideration, but as the result of some years of thought. [9]
First came a wreath of roses and lotos-flowers, looking as if they had been plucked just before sunrise, for among the blossoms and leaves there flashed and sparkled a glittering dew of diamonds, lightly fastened on delicate silver wires. [10]
He tapped the wound lightly, and said with irony: "This is my note of hand for my debt, Shon McGann. [11]
Leicester was riding with the Knights Tilters, and as they cantered lightly past the dais, trailing their spears in obeisance, Elizabeth engaged herself in talk with Cecil, who was standing near, and appeared not to see the favourite. [11]
And Miss Trevor, with a mirthful glance at me that was not without a tinge of triumph, jumped lightly to the deck and went in to see the invalids. [9]
One with a white plume in his hat seemed familiar to Rostov; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which Rostov fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. [2]
And Caracalla yielded, while her hand moved as lightly over the brow of the terrible man as when years ago it had soothed her mother to sleep. [10]
The favorite song, which the crowd compelled her to repeat, touched lightly the uncertainties of love, expressed in the falsetto pathetic refrain: "Mary's gone away wid de coon. [4]
He and Pierre were borne along lightly and joyously, nearer and nearer to their goal. [2]
Before we started, we stooped beside a brook that leaped lightly down the ravine, and drank a little rum and water. [11]
But her courage was not to be lightly shaken. [9]
Of course, there was news by telegraph, but that was precious as fine gold,--not to be lightly read and cast aside. [9]
Through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and at last Anna Mikhaylovna, still with the same expression, pale but resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching Pierre lightly on the arm said: "The divine mercy is inexhaustible! [2]
Somewhere a storm was gathering, but only a small cloud had scattered some raindrops lightly, sprinkling the road and the sappy leaves. [2]
Thereat he was vexed and answered that as matters were, so might they remain; but that he was somewhat amazed to mark how lightly she had got over that which had spoiled many a day and night for him. [10]
Now, please, let us change the subject finally; and"--here she softly laughed--"forgive me if I have treated your fancied infatuation lightly or indifferently. [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]
And Weld ran up to me, and though I was a good piece of a lad, swung me lightly onto his shoulder. [9]
It was fine to see how soon their country diffidences and awkwardnesses melted away under this pleasant sun of deference and disappeared, and how lightly and easily they took to their new atmosphere. [5]
Marriage is not to be lightly entered into. [9]
But the fourth time, he groped a little further, and his hand lightly swept against something soft and warm. [5]
He stirred, as though to shake off the net that he felt twisting round him, in the hands of the robust and powerful Dupont, on whom crime sat so lightly, who had flourished while he, Lygon, had gone lower and lower. [11]
It was at this critical juncture in the proceedings that a young man stepped lightly into the store behind Miss Jinny. [9]
Occasionally after that there came to my ears the muffed report of some hidden gun, and a ball like a powder-puff lay lightly on the plain, and vanished. [9]
If he was, then it is for you to consider whether that power to perform wonders is one for you lightly to throw away. [7]
She laughed with them, treated them lightly, and went about her business again with a toss of the head. [11]
Far beneath in the valley the water ran lightly on, but there came no sound from it, none from anywhere; only a general pervasive murmur quieting to the heart. [11]
Pentaur lightly touched the strings, leaned his head against the top of the tall bow of the harp, for some time lest in meditation; then he drew himself up boldly, and struck the chords, bringing out a strong and warlike music in broad heroic rhythm. [10]
Veer lightly from the stress of all great wrongs, And lisp of peace 'mid battle-flags unfurled? [11]
Having done that, the officer, lifting his elbow with a smart gesture, stroked his mustache and lightly touched his hat. [2]
He had detected the note in her speech: though lightly uttered, it was unmistakably a command. [9]
All features of the noble building are distinct now, but soft and dreamy, for the sun is lightly veiled with clouds. [5]
You have abandoned the most serious and sacred enterprise in the world as lightly as though it had been a piece of embroidery. [9]
And under these the Meramec, crystal pure, ran lightly on sand and pebble to her bridal with that turbid tyrant, the Father of Waters. [9]
He tapped on the glass lightly, and a large, gray, hairy spider came forth from the hollow of a funnel-like web. [6]
He passed through the gate, and went lightly up the path. [11]
The nurse heard the gate click lightly, but she was only half-awake, and as all was quiet in the next room, she composed herself in her chair again with the vain idea that she was not sleeping. [11]
Ephraim had followed the captain of the archers, who pointed out the youth's uncle, saying: "Shining armor would become you also, and when drums are beating, pipes squeaking shrilly, and banners waving, a man marches as lightly as if he had wings. [10]
The breath of the blindfolded buffalo was in his face, he drew himself up lightly and quickly beside the buffalo--he was making no blunder now. [11]
Yet she knew that this offer of Miss Lucretia's was not one to be lightly set aside, and that it might eventually be the best solution of the problem. [9]
When we consider that there are but twenty-five Senators in the Senate, taking two from the side where they rightfully belong, and adding them to the other, is to us a disadvantage not to be lightly regarded. [7]
It was evident that the affair so lightly begun could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of men's will. [2]
He was aware that Mr. Redbrook was bringing arguments to bear on the matter of the meeting of the evening before, but he fended these lightly, while in spirit he flung a gem-studded bridle aver the neck of Pegasus. [9]
Thus it was that Jock Hallowell's prophecy, so lightly uttered, came to pass. [9]
Yet I saw that he would be runnin' the risk of his own safety for me, and I told him that I could not have him do it; but he talked me lightly down, and we started. [11]
And she knew that he was renouncing thus lightly, for her sake an ambition he had had from his school days. [9]
The delicate hands, still unwrinkled, were folded, and lightly clasped a well-worn rosary. [10]
A certain Marquis spoke lightly of a lady, an Englishwoman at our court, and my Englishman ran him through one morning at Versailles. [9]
Evidently she could speak of Russia's misfortunes with a certain artificiality, but her brother was too near her heart and she neither could nor would speak lightly of him. [2]
On hearing that sound Natasha put down the stocking, leaned nearer to him, and suddenly, noticing his shining eyes, stepped lightly up to him and bent over him. [2]
Some of the soldiery had military clothes, old militia uniforms, or the rebel trappings of '37; others, less fortunate, wore their trousers in long boots, their coats buttoned lightly over their chests, and belted in; and the Napoleonic cockade was in every cap. [11]
If you had so lightly yielded your rights to kiss of mine, you may be certain that I would have appealed to any one who would do my behest to call you to account for such scorn! [10]
Indeed, during the six years which we are about to skip over so lightly, he became a marked man in Coniston, and it was voted in towns meeting that he be intrusted with that most important of literary labors, the Town History of Coniston. [9]
That last detail should not be lightly passed over by the reader; it is well entitled to attention. [5]
That last detail should not be lightly passed over by the read; it is well entitled to attention. [5]
Why then should she think Guida would take the officer seriously where she herself held the sailor lightly? [11]
For a moment she peered at Honora over the glasses lightly poised on the uncertain rim of her nose. [9]
At one time she could not be touched ever so lightly without shrinking and crying out. [6]
With his lips set in a line he stepped lightly out of the boat into their very midst, and they looked into his eyes to forget time and place. [9]
The Emperor had seated himself on the window-sill; he pressed his foot lightly on the head of the dog, and gazed at Keraunus as at some remarkable curiosity. [10]
Was this cherished scheme a whim or a joke to be lightly cast aside? [9]
I think our Scheherezade has never had a lover in human shape, or she would not play so lightly with the firebrands of the great passion. [6]
May the earth rest lightly on him! [10]
She did not regard me, but stood facing the wheel, with the left hand near the spindle, holding lightly between the thumb and forefinger the white roll of wool which was being spun and twisted on it. [4]
Verus recommenced his questioning, but the Sarmatian would betray nothing, till Verus tapped him lightly first on one cheek and then on the other, and said gaily: "Mastor, my worthy friend Mastor, listen to me. [10]
If their glass prison-houses were touched ever so lightly they were up and spoiling for a fight in a minute. [5]
The perfect personal poise of Mavick, which gave him an air of patronizing the ocean, and his lightly held skeptical view of life, made his company as full of flavor on ship as it was on shore. [4]
In a third place a crowd of bees, crushing one another, attack some victim and fight and smother it, and the victim, enfeebled or killed, drops from above slowly and lightly as a feather, among the heap of corpses. [2]
There was one person upon whom the tragedy of life thus far sat lightly. [4]
She replied lightly, 'Perhaps, when you become Sir Duke Lawless. [11]
Macavoy took a pail of water from the ground, drank from it lightly, and waited. [11]
But we weep on, unheeding The earth's joys spread for us; And ever, far receding, Our fair land fades from us: One waited, patient, broken, High-hearted but opprest, One lightly took the token-- The mad Fates took the rest. [11]
It was an offer not to be lightly set aside, and yet I had made up my mind. [9]
The attendants pulled off their slippers and thrust them under their faces, and now the siais of the Sheikh ran over their bodies lightly, calling out for all to lie still--the Sheikh was coming on his horse. [11]
Only a few of them still move, rise, and feebly fly to settle on the enemy's hand, lacking the spirit to die stinging him; the rest are dead and fall as lightly as fish scales. [2]
At the bottom of the incline was an immense heap of weathered sandstone all crumbling to dust, but there were no huge rocks as large as houses, such as rested so lightly and frightfully above, waiting patiently and inevitably to crash down. [13]
Over the episodes of that interminable morning it will, be better to pass lightly. [9]
There were tears, of Susan's shedding; there was a character-sketch of Mr. Browne, of Susan's drawing, and that gentleman flitted lightly out of Susan's life. [9]
The hundred feet of silk swished through the air, and the tail-fly fell as lightly on the water as a three-cent piece (which no slamming will give the weight of a ten) drops upon the contribution plate. [4]
Tread, O joy of my life, tread lightly! [11]
But he spoke of his wickedness lightly as, "A slip--a little accident, mon ami. [11]
With the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. [2]
This is an occasion peculiarly meet for the digging up of pleasant reminiscences concerning literary folk; therefore I will drop lightly into history myself. [5]
But--you have often noticed the signification of a 'but,'" she added, smiling, tapping her cheek lightly with the ivory knife--"but the hour arrives when the bandbox becomes a prison, when the simple hours cloy. [11]
The thoughtful will not throw this war-paper of mine lightly aside as being valueless. [5]
So you will not think I mean to speak lightly of old friendships, because we cannot help instituting comparisons between our present and former selves by the aid of those who were what we were, but are not what we are. [6]
Her brown hand--yet not so brown after all--held her hat lightly, and was, somehow, like a signal out of a world in which his hopes were lost for the present. [11]
No, there shall not be fighting as you think, Shon; but--" here Pierre rose, came over, and spread his fingers lightly on Shon's breast "but this thing is between this man and me, Shon McGann, and you shall see a great matter. [11]
The pinions of my soul beat indeed more freely and lightly as I foresee the moment when it shall be released from the burden of this flesh! [10]
My sorrow for Mr. Watling was genuine, but nevertheless I found myself compelled to consider an honour no man lightly refuses. [9]
There were the most cordial hand-shakings and good-bys, and Philip said good-by as lightly as anybody. [4]
It is a miracle that Hamley should produce two such men," she added gaily, and laid her fan upon her husband's arm lightly. [11]
Pleasant as you may think it to be in Memphis with your lover, fair heart-breaker, you will have to make way for the plaything you have so lightly tossed aside! [10]
He was a man of a remarkable appearance, and not to be lightly forgotten. [9]
For she laughed lightly, musically, and put a hand on his shoulder. [9]
Your daughter,"--he turned lightly towards Felicity,--"if she will not refuse me, and she cannot upon the ground that you refused my father--she shall be Countess of Enderby in her own right; with estates in keeping. [11]
She who had lightly tossed lovers aside, her coquetry appeased, had to himself shown sincerity without coquetry, loyalty without selfishness. [11]
A small volume, lightly stitched together, lay on a little table beside the bed. [10]

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