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Sentences starting with promptly

Promptly at four I climbed the stairs and knocked at Mr. Fox's door. [9]

Sentences ending with promptly

But we had to go to Odessa, 250 miles away, and there the Governor General urged us, and sent a telegram to the Emperor, which we hardly expected to be answered, but it was, and promptly. [5]
And so I thank you sincerely for the invitation; and with you, all Reno, and if I were a few years younger I would accept it, and promptly. [5]
But I'm still sure he acted promptly. [11]
Slade resented them promptly. [5]
I turned out promptly. [5]
But hunger is pride's master; so, as the evening drew near, he made an attempt at another farmhouse; but here he fared worse than before; for he was called hard names and was promised arrest as a vagrant except he moved on promptly. [5]
Guida's hands were on the tiller firmly, doing Jean's bidding promptly. [11]
Whatever he did must be done on the instant, and happily Verus had the gift of thinking and acting promptly. [10]
General McClellan has moved his whole force on the line of the James River, and is supported there by our gunboats; but he must be largely strengthened before advancing, and hence the call on you, which I am glad you answered so promptly. [7]
They're a hard lot; but if the rest of the ship is with me, I'll deal with them promptly. [11]

Short sentences using promptly

This is promptly done. [5]

Sentences containing promptly two or more times

The professors assist them in the saving of their time by being promptly in their little boxed-up pulpits when the hours strike, and as promptly out again when the hour finishes. [5]

More example sentences with the word promptly in them

The head tells you pretty promptly whether the food is satisfactory or not; and everybody hears, and thinks the whole man has spoken. [5]
Well, upon my word if things ain't getting to a pretty pass when--" The house broke into laughter, but was promptly brought to order, and meantime Mr. Allen persuaded the old lady to take her seat. [5]
He started down without waiting to get it loose, made the trip successfully, and was promptly hustled outside the limit-rope by the police. [5]
The powerful hand with which his servant had promptly controlled the fiery spirit of the animals excited his approbation, and seemed to inspire him to put a clog boldly on the wheels of speeding fate. [10]
I hope you will all do your duty bravely and promptly, that you may be back in three months to join the main army in the expedition of revenge on the Massagetae. [10]
How surprised they were, then, to see nothing of the sort happen--how they marvelled to hear him answer up promptly, in a confident and untroubled voice, and say-- "There is nought in this riddle that is difficult. [5]
I repeat that we shall not wantonly offend any star; but at the same time we shall promptly resent any injury that may be done us, or any insolence offered us, by parties or governments residing in any star in the firmament. [5]
The men's mouths watered for him, for he would have made a whole banquet; but no one dared to touch him, of course, for he would sink a boat promptly if molested. [5]
However, the letter was written, and promptly, too--whereas, heretofore she has remained afraid to do such things. [5]
At which there was rejoicing at Lebanon, followed by dismay and indignation at Manitou, for one of the smaller merged railways had its offices there, and it was now removed to Lebanon; while several of the staff, having proved cantankerous, were promptly retired. [11]
The other Indian was promptly handled by Pierre himself. [11]
He obeyed, and was promptly arrested as a suspicious character prowling within the precincts of the palace. [5]
When the fleet was first espied, the President thought it was Spaniards, and prepared to defend himself, the Indians promptly coming to his assistance. [4]
He had, for want of a more convenient punishment, promptly knocked down Jeff Hyde, the sometime bully of the fort, for appropriating a bundle of furs belonging to a French half-breed, Gaspe Toujours. [11]
The danger attracted us, but we promptly chose the hill road on account of the views, for we were weary of the limited valley prospects. [4]
Then they hunted up Huckleberry Finn, and he joined them promptly, for all careers were one to him; he was indifferent. [5]
I spoke promptly up and said: "It's no trouble to guess this noble creature's figures height, three feet; length, four feet and three-quarters of an inch; weight, a hundred and forty-eight and a quarter. [5]
But I cannot understand the cruelty..." "Qui s'excuse s'accuse," * said Julie, smiling and waving the lint triumphantly, and to have the last word she promptly changed the subject. [2]
She had come to speak of a matter of importance, and had done so promptly, for her son's and Paula's conduct just now urged her to lose no time. [10]
Erasmus, however, trusted to his strength and nimbleness and, instead of promptly taking flight, entreated Barbara to listen to him a moment. [10]
Katharina promptly proposed to go and see him: the horses were still in harness, her nurse could accompany her. [10]
You are warned to be very careful and explicit in your answers, for the welfare of the service requires that the nurses be promptly fined or otherwise punished for derelictions. [5]
Then they began to ask themselves why they had joined in the acclamations, and had been so wildly excited; how it was that they had so promptly surrendered their self-possession and dignity for the sake of this wicked little man. [10]
It was about time to suppress this woman's telegraph, and it was promptly done. [5]
She had not time to run, but she did what answered just as well; she promptly drew a lithe young willow bough athwart her white body with one hand, and then contemplated us with a simple and untroubled interest. [5]
Hastening through the throng, which promptly made way for the doctor, she found Father Damon lying across the threshold, as he had fallen, colorless and unconscious. [4]
Any violence to them or to their property is promptly punished. [2]
The drawbridge before the watch-tower was promptly lowered for the imperial magistrate and his wife. [10]
All believe that the decisive moment is near at hand, and to that end the people of the United States are desirous to aid promptly in furnishing all reinforcements that you may deem needful to sustain our government. [7]
And so, with the cheerfulness which it was kind and becoming to show, so far as possible, and yet with a little excitement on one particular point, which was the cause of his writing so promptly, he began his answer. [6]
It was said that repeated offers had been made for it at a thousand dollars a foot, and promptly refused. [5]
Will promptly declared that he would join, for Patty was good to look upon. [9]
Why, I believe that everything Judge Trumbull had proposed, particularly in connection with this question of Kansas and Nebraska, since he had been on the floor of the Senate, had been promptly voted down by Judge Douglas and his friends. [7]
Will say now that all your despatches to the Secretary of War have been promptly shown to me. [7]
Scarcely less important than promptly seizing and printing the news is the attractive arrangement of it, its effective presentation to the eye. [4]
Before leaving the tent, however, she dropped her ostrich-feather fan as she passed Hermon, and, when he picked it up, whispered with a significant glance at Daphne, "I see that what was learned of her heart is turned to account promptly enough. [10]
I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. [5]
And it had so happened, a few years before, for the accommodation of some young men of his acquaintance that he had invested rather generously in Grantham mining stock at twenty-five cents a share, and had promptly forgotten the transaction. [9]
So, as I said, the Chinamen's cases were quickly disposed of, and fines and imprisonment promptly distributed among them. [5]
But when Gwendolen rose up promptly and smiled a glad smile and said with thankfulness and blessing, "Must you go? [5]
She would promptly repudiate any religious interest. [4]
She was promptly removed by the police. [5]
Dr. Hiltner, of Ratisbon, to whom, in spite of his heretical belief, she intrusted the legal business of the estate, acted wisely and promptly in her behalf. [10]
Of course Howells promptly replied that he would read the story, adding: "You've no idea what I may ask you to do for me, some day. [5]
King and Forbes promptly opened windows, but this gave little relief. [4]
Miss Forsythe recovered promptly her cheerful serenity, but not the elasticity of hope; she was irretrievably hurt; it was as if life was now to be endured. [4]
How amply and promptly he did it, Mr. Motley's own account will best show. [6]
The evil was promptly corrected on the arrival of the successor in the consulate, and our relations with Egypt, as well as our relations with the Barbary Powers, are entirely satisfactory. [7]
That decision was promptly complied with by Chile when intelligence in regard to it reached that country. [7]
Yet it was plain Barouche meant to stick to it, and he promptly said: "You haven't the right time, beetle. [11]
He had interested people of place in the country, but he never used promptly the interest he excited. [11]
A citizen stumbled over that head, and drove his own head into the back of somebody in front of him, who turned and knocked down the first person that came handy, and was promptly laid out himself by that person's friend. [5]
He made two or three further efforts to help himself, but being promptly forestalled each time, he finally gave up, with a sigh of resignation and a murmured "Beshrew me, but I marvel they do not require to breathe for me also! [5]
Joan saw her opportunity and ordered La Hire to advance--which La Hire promptly did, launching his wild riders like a storm-wind, his customary fashion. [5]
This thin sort of talk was perhaps pardonable after the weariness of a sea voyage, but the Major promptly said it wouldn't do. [4]
Thus the idea of sending you 50,000, or any other considerable force, promptly, is simply absurd. [7]
We hear promptly of a landslide in Switzerland, but only very slowly of a political agitation that is changing the constitution of the republic. [4]
Anatole Kuragin promptly obtained an appointment from the Minister of War and went to join the army in Moldavia. [2]
It had but obeyed a law of our nature--an irresistible law--to enjoy and applaud a spirited and promptly delivered retort, no matter who makes it. [5]
And Poultney Bigelow's note came promptly, with his check for $1,000. [5]
The officers did not notice that one of these sailors winked an eye at another, and that both then grinned, and were promptly ordered aft by the second lieutenant. [11]
The family did not complain, except on account of losing their stock, and promptly brought a supply of wood in a flat. [5]
Even Rajahs had no terrors for Feringhea; he came across an elephant-driver belonging to the Rajah of Oodeypore and promptly strangled him. [5]
But innocent Yates never suspected that Stephen's promise to pay promptly at the end of the week was a worthless one. [5]
It was quite needless, for the clergyman had promptly taken the case in his own hands. [11]
The properties of multitudes of people were under water for months, and the poorer ones must have starved by the hundred if succor had not been promptly afforded. [5]
How easily jealousy might have led to a fatal crime one whose wish promptly becomes action, unless she curbs the undue zeal of her living tools! [10]
He now promptly met the French officer's exuberance of spirits with a hearty gaiety, and drank his wine with genial compliment and happy anecdote. [11]
The first two men who appeared above the hatchway were promptly despatched, and Iberville's sword was falling upon Gering, whom he did not recognise, when De Casson's hand diverted the blow. [11]
I wish I may never know peace again if he doesn't strike out promptly and follow the track of that cannon-ball across the plain through the dense fog and find the fort. [5]
Because the impression left, was that these tales were full of incident and imagination--a pleasant impression which would be promptly dissipated if the tales were told. [5]
The engine bells jingled and the engines answered promptly, shooting white columns of steam far aloft out of the 'scape pipes, but it was too late. [5]
Frank rashly promised it, and was promptly told by Marion that it couldn't be; and she was backed by Captain Vidall, who said it had already been tabooed, and Frank wasn't to come in and ask for favours or expect them. [11]
The effect of it was lost upon Nick, for he laid down the cup, sighed, and promptly went to sleep again, while I dressed and went forth to make his excuses to the family. [9]
No sooner was it done than he promptly appeared, and raked up most of it, and carried it away. [4]
He discovers what is puzzling you, or what is troubling you, or what your need is, before you can get the half of it out, and he promptly says, "Leave that to me. [5]
Just what happened is not remembered now, but from the date of the next letter we realize that a discussion of the matter by Clemens and Rogers must have followed pretty promptly. [5]
He had rigidly insisted on gun practice; he had keyed up the marines to a better spirit, and churlishness had been promptly punished. [11]
Their king was insane and they changed him for another--Bernadotte, who promptly went mad--for no Swede would ally himself with Russia unless he were mad. [2]
He wasted no ink in this emergency, either in cablegrams or letters; he promptly took ship for America to look into the matter himself. [5]
The woman returned in time to save the breakfast from entire destruction; and she promptly brought the King out of his dreams with a brisk and cordial tongue-lashing. [5]
I asked him if it was another man's wife; he promptly said no. [11]
Often and often I reflected that some hitch might occur to prevent my getting money promptly from Mr. Dix. [9]
A rifle-shot had, however, been fired across the Sagalac from the Manitou side, and it had been promptly acknowledged from Lebanon. [11]
She only watched his movements day by day, and always held herself ready to act promptly. [5]
He promptly arrests him, takes him to the Mudir, and says that the brute must be punished or he'll carry the matter to the Khedive. [11]
The sheriff covered him promptly, and said: "Drop your hand, you parlor desperado. [5]
When she asked him a little bitingly what form his disciplined energy would take, he promptly answered: "Irrigation. [11]
The judge sentenced her, nobody persecuted the governor with petitions for her pardon, and she was promptly hanged. [5]
If she should heedlessly say yes, it would put her mission itself upon trial, and one would know how to decide its source and character promptly. [5]
And, in truth, he was nothing loth to do so, for his news he cared little to deliver, important though it was that she should have it promptly and act upon it soon. [11]
At last, when he needed a new suit--so torn had his others become at woodchopping and many kinds of work--he went to the village tailor, and was promptly told that nothing but Luc Pomfrette's grave-clothes would be cut and made in that house. [11]
Then we should have had the good luck to step promptly ashore. [5]
Since these measures have been in operation all demands on the Treasury, including the pay of the Army and Navy, have been promptly met and fully satisfied. [7]
When he reached Harwich, instead of presenting himself promptly at the spinster's house, he went first to the office of Judge Parkinson, as became a prudent man of affairs. [9]
And Mrs. Mavick had one quality of good generalship--she acted promptly on her convictions. [4]
The fifty dollars had gone promptly for whiskey and had considerably hurried up the change of ownership in the skeleton. [5]
The Greek gods, Greek heroism, Greek art and Greek learning, under our rule shall rise from the dust--all the more promptly for the stringent oppression under which their indomitable spirit has so long languished. [10]
There is a glad light in her eye which is pretty to see when she finds herself able to answer a question promptly and accurately, without any hesitation; as, for instance, this morning: "Cathy dear, what is a cube? [5]
Our order and General McClellan's to General Burnside being the same, of course we wish it executed as promptly as possible. [7]

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