Use ostensibly in a sentence
Sentences starting with ostensibly
- Ostensibly it consisted of a Great Council of four persons, of whom one was the Governor-General, Warren Hastings; really it consisted of one person--Warren Hastings; for by usurpation he concentrated all authority in himself and governed the country like an autocrat. [5]
- Ostensibly I was not present at these proceedings, and am ignorant of them; but I was where I could see. [5]
- Ostensibly to hold councils; really to give Bedford time to send reinforcements to Talbot--which he did; and Patay had to be fought. [5]
More example sentences with the word ostensibly in them
- Hunt; Baron Burrows, who farms out the post-office at Edmundton, leads Edmunds County; Earl Elisha Jane, consul at some hot place where he spends the inclement months drops the first ticket for Haines County, ostensibly solid for home-made virtue and the Honourable Giles. [9]
- Gradually the people who came here ostensibly for religious exercises made a longer and more permanent occupation, and, without losing its ephemeral character, the place grew and demanded more substantial accommodations. [4]
- Outside the house we encountered a double rank of twenty or thirty of Miss Porter's young ladies arriving from a walk, and we stood aside, ostensibly to let them have room to file past, but really to look at them. [5]
- Up to this time we have submitted to having Mrs. Boinville pushed upon us as ostensibly concerned in these Italian lessons, but the biographer drops her now, of his own accord. [5]
- The telegram ostensibly quotes verse 53 from the "Magnificat," but really makes some pretty formidable changes in it. [5]
- The commission of priests sent to Lorraine ostensibly to inquire into Joan's character--in fact to weary her with delays and wear out her purpose and make her give it up--arrived back and reported her character perfect. [5]
- And many gentlemen of fashion like the doctor called ostensibly to visit Mrs. [9]
- This annual gathering of booksellers from all over America comes together ostensibly to eat and drink, but really to discuss, business; therefore I am required to, talk shop. [5]
- He had taken me there ostensibly to let me see the big establishment which bought so much of his charcoal, but really to let me see what easy and almost familiar terms he was on with this great man. [5]
- If neither procession gave way, the Orange funeral could be broken up, ostensibly not from religious fanaticism, but from the "unhappy accident" of two straight lines colliding. [11]
- The buck, its father, had been that night on a long tramp across the mountain to Clear Pond, and had not yet returned: he went ostensibly to feed on the succulent lily-pads there. [4]
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