Use plainly in a sentence
Sentences starting with plainly
- Plainly the book was written under the mental desolations of the Third Degree, and I feel sure that none but the membership of that Degree can discover meanings in it. [5]
- Plainly the situation was desperate. [5]
- Plainly enough now,--it was an exactly fitted niche, for the Dred Scott decision to afterward come in, and declare the perfect freedom of the people to be just no freedom at all. [7]
- Plainly this was the road to fortune. [5]
- Plainly he heard the bullet thud. [13]
- Plainly and clearly stamped between its delicately worded lines was the claim of a comradeship born of Honora's recent act. [9]
- Plainly enough now,--the speaking out then would have damaged the "perfectly free" argument upon which the election was to be carried. [7]
- Plainly as though she could look through these stone walls into clear sunlight, she saw some one dismount, and she heard a voice. [11]
- Plainly it was not the one which gave us our breakfast. [5]
- Plainly he was not minded to be robbed of his glory. [5]
Sentences ending with plainly
- If you are you should say so plainly. [7]
- She was going to do that--I saw it plainly. [5]
- You think all this is so easy.--It is long since I have had so hard a task, yet I must speak plainly. [10]
- I insisted on the dresses being made quite plainly. [14]
- She tried to tell it in a commonplace, matter-of-course way, but she was so set up by it and so vain of it that her pride in it leaked out pretty plainly. [5]
- I wish this talk had not come now, but, since it has come, it is better to speak plainly. [11]
- All this she spoke without a tear or a sigh, with steadfast purpose; and already I began, for my part, to doubt of the truth of her love; and I told her this plainly. [10]
- I am speaking plainly. [9]
- I saw it plainly. [5]
- The light of morning was creeping through the starshine, and his features showed plainly. [11]
Short sentences using plainly
- He plainly and squarely refused. [5]
- It is very plainly turbid. [6]
- The situation was plainly insoluble. [4]
- She showed that plainly enough. [10]
- The deputy was plainly abashed. [9]
- She was plainly embarrassed. [9]
- He was plainly annoyed. [11]
More example sentences with the word plainly in them
- 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]
- The iron-souled truth-monger would plainly manifest, or even utter the fact, that he didn't want to see those people--and he would be an ass, and inflict a totally unnecessary pain. [5]
- Well, now she would ask him plainly whether he had placed it on the rotunda for her or for her sister, and let him see she was not pleased. [10]
- I believe The World for Sale shows as plainly as anything can show the vexed and conglomerate life of a Western town. [11]
- His eyes, wet with tears of grateful joy, sought the young man's, and, though he had just warned him plainly enough against courting his daughter, his sparkling gaze now asked whether he had ever met an equally bewitching marvel. [10]
- She tortured herself with questions, and the less peace her aunt gave her, the more unendurable her headache became, the more plainly she felt that the fever, against whose relaxing power she had struggled for days, would conquer her. [10]
- Clearly, plainly, fully, with more thorough knowledge of many details than even the superintendent of the water works, she explained her design to the assembled professionals. [10]
- Then the elecampane wine did good service; yet was it not till she had drunk of it many times that her tongue spoke plainly again. [10]
- Everywhere dead men were lying outside the second fence--not plainly visible, but still visible; and we counted fifteen of those pathetic statues--dead knights standing with their hands on the upper wire. [5]
- He could not well have helped it, I hung with such homage on his words and so plainly showed that I felt honored by his notice. [5]
- Confound him, he wearied me with arguments to show that in anything like a fair market he would have fetched twenty-five dollars, sure--a thing which was plainly nonsense, and full or the baldest conceit; I wasn't worth it myself. [5]
- You know how we live at our house, plainly, but with a certain degree of cultivated propriety. [6]
- To speak plainly, we despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. [5]
- Looking intently that way one night, he plainly distinguished an eye gleaming and glistening at the keyhole; and having now no doubt that his suspicions were correct, he stole softly to the door, and pounced upon her before she was aware of his approach. [12]
- But those who watched him as he retired from the window saw plainly that the idyl, which he had promised them should begin to-day, would assuredly not do so for the next few hours at least, unless some miracle should occur. [10]
- The day's work was ruined--I could see that plainly enough. [5]
- Moreover, Mr. Spence was plainly under the impression that she too "came up" from New York, and it was impossible not to be a little pleased. [9]
- The second impulse was plainly the soundest, so I refrained, and proceeded to compromise. [5]
- Ah, yes, this was plainly the right way out of the difficulty; therefore she set her wits to work at once to contrive that test. [5]
- To do either was plainly the labor of months; for we could blast and bore only a few feet a day--some five or six. [5]
- But Nick, who was plainly in search of something he did not find, hurried on. [9]
- The old darky was plainly frightened. [9]
- For Mr. Wrenn was plainly an artist, and had set down on the paper the words just as they had flowed from her heart. [9]
- The knocking, which was now renewed, and which in that stillness they could plainly hear, troubled them. [12]
- The wretch's estate was not so contemptible; but I tell you plainly I should be unworthy to be the wife of the noble Mena if I allowed any one to vilify his name under his own roof. [10]
- The delight that was in my heart showed in my face, and the man saw it and was pleased; saw it so plainly that he answered it as if it had been spoken. [5]
- But as she was honest and clear-sighted, she could not accept a statement which seemed so plainly in contradiction with his common teachings, without bringing his flattering assertion to the test of another question. [6]
- Her fair hair was drawn plainly and smoothly, over her temples, and the slender, slightly stooping figure, resembled a young tree, which the storm has bowed and deprived of strength and will to raise itself. [10]
- Then a title was a title to those born lower, and the young man plainly had a vast honour for a coronet. [9]
- The late Claimant was a fool, but plainly this new one's a maniac. [5]
- But suddenly one warm September noon, when her pale, waxing crescent was plainly visible in the blue sky by daylight, she beheld him again. [10]
- Dr. Boltze was waiting for me, and his wife's troubled face betrayed what had happened even more plainly than her husband's frown. [10]
- Everything was plainly visible, for the desert tract of the Nekropolis, where at this hour utter darkness and silence usually reigned, was brightly lighted up. [10]
- She saw a very real, very human individual, clad in a dark nondescript suit of clothes which had been bought ready-made, and plainly without the bestowal of much thought, on Fifth Street. [9]
- It stands plainly upon the record. [5]
- Seating himself with unrepressed joy, he looked at us, and a great smile of satisfaction came over his face, that plainly said, "Now my time has come. [4]
- Henry Clay plainly understood the contrary. [7]
- What was painfully uncertain then is much better defined and more distinct now, and the progress of events is plainly in the right direction. [7]
- We could see trout by the thousand winging about in the emptiness under us, or sleeping in shoals on the bottom, but they would not bite--they could see the line too plainly, perhaps. [5]
- She could almost touch the brown hair waving back carelessly from the forehead, untouched by powder, in the fashion of the time; and she could hear his cheery laugh quite plainly, so complete was the illusion. [11]
- They had already torn off his mantle and discovered beneath its folds the sharp-edged butcher's knife which plainly betrayed his intentions. [10]
- Barbara felt only too plainly that it was time to leave her post of observation; her feet would scarcely carry her and, besides, she was freezing. [10]
- She not only tolerated him, but, wonderful to be said, plainly liked him. [9]
- He had never told her plainly that he loved her. [10]
- It is painful to relate that the irregularity and deceit of the life the Vicomte was leading amused her, for existence at Silverdale was plainly not of a kind to make a gentleman of the Vicomte's temperament and habits ecstatically happy. [9]
- Take Mr. Brown to our house, and give him help--you see how plainly he needs it. [5]
- I put this to Nick as plainly as I could, and was declaring my intention of going back to Madame Bouvet's, when the sound of voices arrested me. [9]
- Why not go to his little house in Clarksville when you get to Louisville and talk to him plainly, as I know you can? [9]
- I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. [7]
- Plainly, something had to be done, and quickly; but what was to be the needful thing. [5]
- At the same time he could not doubt a word that she said, for the voice within him had long since plainly told him that this woman was no common criminal. [10]
- It revealed her thoughts plainly enough, and, pleased with the success of his warning, Bias exclaimed: "And Ledscha, you, too, will not grant him that from which you would so gladly have withheld your sister. [10]
- But, unfortunately for those who are tempted, issues are never put quite so plainly by the heralds of destiny and penalty. [11]
- Quijada had said this to himself, and perceived plainly enough what was passing in the young knight's thoughts. [10]
- Yet she dreaded this meeting with an intensity plainly revealed by the passionate throbbing of her heart and the panting of her weakened lungs. [10]
- Manners had rented this house, and its furniture, from some great man who had gone out of office, plainly a person of means and taste. [9]
- I saw all this as plainly as if it had all been printed in great-primer type, instead of working itself out in her features. [6]
- Is it true, then, that any right, plainly written in the Constitution, has been denied? [7]
- The distance between them was very great, but the size of the animal caused him to be plainly seen. [5]
- The signs of the times show plainly enough what is going to happen. [5]
- Hodder plainly heard the ticking of the clock on the mantel . [9]
- So clear was the sweet evening air that the irregular surface of the desert showed for a score of miles as plainly as though it were but a step away. [11]
- The colour of the skin and hair are plainly correlated, as is the texture of the hair with its colour in the Mandans of North America. [1]
- Let us consider the real case with which we are dealing, and apply to it the parts of the Constitution plainly made for such cases. [7]
- At that hour the merchantmen had all scuttled to safety behind the head, and from the deck a great yellow King's frigate could be plainly seen standing south to meet us, followed by her smaller consort. [9]
- The sole and the heel were plainly to be seen, and, hard by, the print of a man's large, broad shoes, with iron-shod heels, which told Kubbeling that they were those of Uhlwurm's great boots. [10]
- As she closed the door gusts of laughter reached them from the floor below, and she could plainly distinguish the voices of May Barclay and Trixton Brent. [9]
- Plainly, also, that the character of his great-uncle was in question, an intimation which he did not appear to resent. [9]
- The indentation of the central disc and of the surrounding zones of the ocellus, in both species of peacock, speaks plainly in favour of this view, and is otherwise inexplicable. [1]
- Specialist historians describing the campaign of 1813 or the restoration of the Bourbons plainly assert that these events were produced by the will of Alexander. [2]
- Besides, it pleases the arrogant little lady to show me as plainly as possible, on every occasion, that I am a horror to her. [10]
- Gorgias started, and the apology he stammered showed so plainly how inattentively he had listened, that Barine would have had good reason to feel offended. [10]
- And not only that: Mrs. Constable was plainly defending a further step, which in his opinion involved a breach of the Seventh Commandment! [9]
- A flaring glow that tinged the temple, the wharf and the deep sky itself with a gorgeous crimson glare, showed very plainly what the populace were employed in doing. [10]
- Quilp plainly discerned that there was some secret reason for this visit and his uncommon disappointment, and, in the hope that there might be means of mischief lurking beneath it, resolved to worm it out. [12]
- Then I perceived that there was but small hope; with a heavy heart, and, indeed, a secret intent behind, I took the task upon me, for I saw plainly that my refusal would ruin all. [10]
- Nor, indeed, had that object ever been so plainly set forth as Victoria had set it forth. [9]
- It was clear that Horapollo was uneasy at Philippus' long silence, and his pointed eyebrows, raised high on his brow, plainly showed that he was drawing his own conclusions from it--no doubt the right ones. [10]
- He can't be taken seriously, and plainly he has never taken any one else so. [9]
- Plainly, the irritating system was not to be perpetual; and it was plausibly urged that it could be modified at once with advantage. [7]
- I am quite sure that he saw me as plainly as I see you, Puss Russell. [9]
- It was a subject she did not choose to discuss with him, and dropped her lashes before the plainly spoken admiration in his eyes. [9]
- Standing motionless, he strove for words, while his eyes revealed plainly enough the passionate rapture which agitated his soul. [10]
- Gaston told the story plainly, briefly, as he had told his earlier history. [11]
- He looked Dicky squarely in the face, and Dicky knew that the Khedive's glance said as plainly as words: "Fool of an Englishman, go on! [11]
- In it they spoke their principles as plainly and as definitely to the world. [7]
- But when her sparkling blue eyes gazed at him so brightly and at the same time so plainly showed that she knew she had wronged him, he clasped the hand, and his face again wore a friendly expression. [10]
- Her keen eyes sparkled under her plainly parted hair and the green de-laine moulded itself in those unmistakable lines of natural symmetry in which Nature indulges a small shopkeeper's daughter occasionally as well as a wholesale dealer's young ladies. [6]
- That has a somewhat reckless sound; but it would be palliated, if not fully justified, were we proposing, by the mere force of numbers, to deprive you of some right plainly written down in the Constitution. [7]
- The silence grew, so that the ticking of the watch in the missionary's pocket could be heard plainly, having for its background of sound the continuous swish of the river. [11]
- It was, as sketched by me under a simple microscope, plainly divided by transverse opaque partitions, which I presume represent the great cells figured by Kovalevsky. [1]
- He realised the situation as plainly as if it had been written down for him--he knew his brother well. [11]
- Do not the signs of the times point plainly the way in which we are going? [7]
- From all these signs Cleopatra now saw plainly, in her lover's victory, only the last flicker of a dying fire; but so long as it burned he should see her follow its light. [10]
- The Misses Russell showed him very plainly that they disapproved of his politics. [9]
- Had she not showed him more than plainly how ill he had succeeded in gaining her affection? [10]
- The old man showed by his face that he plainly understood the cause of my hesitation, but he merely signed to me with an inclination of the head to pass out of the room before him, and remained silent. [12]
- Suppose that she should profit by the wish he showed so plainly, and through jealousy bind the man whom she loved anew and more firmly than ever? [10]
- When I read Shakespeare now I can hear them as plainly as I did in that long-departed time--fifty-one years ago. [5]
- Not once only, several times Charles had stated plainly enough how unpleasant it was to him even to hear the amusement mentioned. [10]
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