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Sentences starting with seriously

Seriously ill--you know--last time, I'm afraid," and Mr. Simpson shook his head. [9]
Seriously this proposition of Mr. Lamborn is nothing more or less than a request that his party may be tried by their professions instead of their practices. [7]

Sentences ending with seriously

And make up your mind that, for once, you have got to take life seriously. [11]
But such immunity was not to be granted to the emperor's sweetheart, who could so audaciously reject two brothers accustomed to easy conquests; her demure severity could hardly be meant seriously. [10]
I dreaded it very seriously. [5]
I am sorry to say that she refused to take the affair seriously. [4]
Have you ever thought of any career seriously? [9]
The kernel is the same in both prefaces, you see--the public must not take us too seriously. [5]
Only I haven't the least idea what I am to do; I wanted to consult you seriously. [2]
I sometimes think that his elegance and flippancy were deliberate, lest he should be taking himself or life too seriously. [11]
Don't take it seriously. [9]
He had often said he had seen a Bunyip, and that he'd bring one home some day, but no one took him seriously. [11]

Short sentences using seriously

Laura was seriously troubled. [5]
Mine, too, was seriously injured. [10]
I do say it seriously. [5]
Quite seriously. [5]

Sentences containing seriously two or more times

It is bound to tarnish the good name of the company; our credit will be seriously, most seriously impaired. [5]
I believe in men taking their work seriously, but not so seriously as you do. [9]

More example sentences with the word seriously in them

I can't get you to talk seriously even when I come all the way from New York to find out what's going on here. [9]
Your absence, do you hear?--pardon the interruption, fairest Ledscha--your absence would seriously anger her. [10]
But, seriously, Jasmine, you are not well. [11]
But seriously, Jethro, you and Wetherell ought to send her to school in Boston after a while. [9]
What extravagant fancies you and I have seriously entertained at one time or another! [6]
Threaten him seriously with my grave displeasure if he persists in leaving it speedily. [10]
He spoke seriously, with apparent solicitude. [11]
At times she wished she had rebuked Trixton Brent more forcibly, although he was not an easy person to rebuke; and again she reflected that, had she taken the matter too seriously, she would have laid herself open to his ridicule. [9]
And yet there were some reviews of a different sort, half a dozen in all, and half of them from Western journals, which took the book seriously, saw its pathos, its artistic merit, its failure of construction through inexperience. [4]
The window spaces were closed by wooden shutters, and whenever they moved with a low creaking or louder banging Hermon started and forgot everything else in anxiety about his invalid friend, whose suffering every strong wind brought on again, and often seriously increased. [10]
But seriously a Washoe wind is by no means a trifling matter. [5]
What was interesting was the open-mindedness with which, on both sides, the argument was conducted, and the fact that it could seriously take place then and there. [9]
The virgin queen was the last ruler who seriously regarded the pomps and splendors of feudalism. [4]
Presently her gaze was fixed seriously on me. [9]
It was taken up seriously in the country regions. [4]
I also became unintentionally acquainted with a secret, which seriously endangered his chances of obtaining the crown; and lastly, I prevented his carrying off a virtuous maiden from the house of her grandmother, an aged woman, beloved and respected by all the Greeks. [10]
These speculations were unemphasized sensations rather than articulated thoughts, for Wilson would have laughed at the idea of seriously connecting Tom with the murder. [5]
The groans of two young singers who were seriously ill were drowned by the din and heeded by no one except the old drummer's pitying wife, who sometimes wiped the perspiration from the sufferers' brows or supported their heads. [10]
Besides, her cough troubled her very seriously, and it seemed as though she could not travel that long distance alone. [10]
After that I took another road, several miles longer, for the sight of Miss Thorn with him seriously disturbed my peace of mind. [9]
You took me too seriously, and vanity did the rest. [11]
The Seigneur Duvarney, to whom I had not yet spoken, nor he to me, stood leaning against the wall, gazing at me seriously and kindly. [11]
You must listen to this seriously, for I think the Professor was very much in earnest when he wrote it. [6]
You cannot mean to seriously say there is no such frontier. [5]
Philip Sterling used to say that if he should seriously set himself for ten years to any one of the dozen projects that were in his brain, he felt that he could be a rich man. [5]
Carcaud, seriously wounded, to save his life turned King's evidence, and disclosed to the Royal Court in private his own guilt and Olivier Delagarde's treason. [11]
Nothing comes amiss to me--cash or credit; but, seriously, I do feel that Stanley is the chief man and an illustrious one, and I do applaud him with all my heart. [5]
Any legislation likely to interfere seriously with the occupation of the criminal class or with its increase is certain to meet with the opposition of a large body of voters. [4]
It is charitable to believe that they do not seriously contemplate or truly understand the meaning of the words they use, but rather play with them, as certain so-called "learned" quadrupeds play with the printed characters set before them. [6]
The marriage was to be a very quiet one--the bridegroom's father lay seriously ill. [10]
It was not till the sick-nurse came back that the tumult was appeased; for, as soon as she learned how seriously the loud disputes of her fellow-believers were disturbing the sick man's rest, she interfered so effectually, that the house was as silent as before. [10]
I do not think he lived to see his home again; his disease had been seriously aggravated by his hardships. [5]
The placing of these millions added seriously and most uncomfortably to the family expenses--in tallow candles. [5]
That was not the way he put the question,--but whether she would take seriously to this schoolmaster, and if she did, what would be the neatest and surest and quickest way of putting a stop to all that nonsense. [6]
Mr. Lincoln thought the resolutions ought to be seriously considered. [7]
One aspect of the publishing business which has become increasingly prominent during the last fifteen years cannot be overlooked, for it is certain to affect seriously the production of literature as to quality, and its distribution. [4]
I travel on the pass which the Northeastern gives me as a legislator, and I'm thinking seriously of getting Mr. Flint to send me an annual, now that I'm in politics and have to cover the State. [9]
She is doubtless the only member of that society who thinks seriously of the approaching end. [10]
She had not the most trivial thing for which Barbara could be seriously reproached to report to the confessor; yet De Soto desired nothing better, for Barbara still exerted an extremely favourable influence upon the Emperor's mood. [10]
For even in the late seventeenth century, youth took itself seriously at times. [11]
Three days before the Emperor, for the first time, had seriously found fault with Barbara. [10]
Then he shut the door, and turned to me again, and said more seriously, "How long have we before Monsieur comes? [11]
Inform them that the daughter of Rameses has lapsed seriously from the law, and defiled herself, and direct that public--you hear me public--prayers shall be put up for her purification in every temple. [10]
Doubtless she realized that time and the long period of hoarseness had seriously injured her voice, but even now she could compare with the best singers in the city. [10]
Mr. Wallace admits that there are, as might have been expected, some exceptions to his two rules, but it is a question whether the exceptions are not so numerous as seriously to invalidate them. [1]
I am anxious that that should be; but there are things seriously to be considered in relation to that matter. [7]
I seriously fear that our visit has damaged you in Fredonia, and so I wish you were out of it. [5]
And the fact that it has been seriously combated by writers who deny such a function of the subconscious does not at all affect the reality of the experience. [9]
It is probable that he knew that, and refrained from letting her into the knowledge of this vice, contracted in the war when, seriously ill, he was able to drag himself about from patient to patient only by the help of opium. [11]
The chief horror that haunted him was not failure,--for oddly enough he never seriously distrusted his power, it was disaster. [9]
The vagrant vessels that are idly watched from the rocks at the Pier may be coasters and freight schooners engaged seriously in trade, but they do not seem so. [4]
The only thing that appeared to impress him seriously was Molokai, the desolate island where the lepers made their cheerless prison-home. [11]
A coarser satirist than Emerson indulged his fancy in "Meditations on a Broomstick," which My Lady Berkeley heard seriously and to edification. [6]
Dada clung in terror to Marcus, who was beginning to be seriously alarmed for her when, looking round for aid or refuge, he caught sight of his brother forcing his way through the throng, and gesticulating vehemently. [10]
But old Phabis tells me that steps are being seriously taken to procure the title of Martyr for our father Apelles. [10]
They did not talk seriously to him; when reporting to him or asking for his sanction they appeared to be fulfilling a regrettable formality, but they winked behind his back and tried to mislead him at every turn. [2]
They had evidently taken the matter seriously, and were come with the intention of carrying their point, whatever it might be. [11]
He can't be taken seriously, and plainly he has never taken any one else so. [9]
Me they did take seriously, these provincial lords, inviting me to their houses and opening their hearts. [9]
Philip paid them, swollen as they were with a monstrous list of extras; but he seriously counted the diminishing bulk of his own hoard, which was all the money he had in the world. [5]
I do not suppose she thinks seriously of ever being married. [6]
Is it seriously supposable that we will stop to chew it and let our prey escape? [5]
Only in the suite designed for Margaret did Henderson seriously interfere, and insist upon a luxury that almost took my wife's breath away. [4]
Do you seriously suggest that I give labour a voice in my business? [9]
Besides, if the stranger were the author of the paper, he certainly would not choose a sheet of water like Cedar Lake to perform the last offices for him, in case he seriously meditated taking unceremonious leave of life and its accidents. [6]
The news had spread among the praetorians and the Macedonian legions, that the emperor, who, contrary to his custom, had not shown himself for two days, was seriously ill, and at the point of death. [10]
This was a source of pleasure, for since Wolff had extorted his consent to the betrothal with Els Ortlieb, and thus estranged him from the Vorchtels, he had seriously feared that he had ceased to love him. [10]
Charmian's ignorance and silence in regard to these very matters increased the anxiety of the endangered woman, who saw not only her own life, but those dearest to her, seriously threatened. [10]
That the Church should ever again presume to take herself seriously had never occurred to him. [9]
In the few short reviews that dealt seriously with his work, he was able, when the excitement of seeing himself discussed had subsided, to read between the lines why The Puritan Nun had failed to make a larger appeal. [4]
Why then should she think Guida would take the officer seriously where she herself held the sailor lightly? [11]
The Judge has set about seriously trying to make the impression that when we meet at different places I am literally in his clutches--that I am a poor, helpless, decrepit mouse, and that I can do nothing at all. [7]
Let one consider seriously whether he ever gets as much satisfaction out of a gift received as out of one given. [4]
When he is seriously threatened, bring him to us. [10]
John ----'s wife seriously thought him gone wrong in the head, as she heard him giving vent to roars of laughter as he sat alone, clapping and stamping on the floor. [14]
And did you seriously suppose that I was in earnest when we spoke about your assistance in persuading him to take the house? [9]
He never became seriously engaged in the practice of the profession he had chosen. [6]
But I am seriously anxious--even before we went to church something unsatisfactory had happened to you, and not merely in the council-meeting. [10]
His kindly nature secretly approved of her spending a longer time in the Cathedral of St. Gudule than usual, praying for the royal sufferer who was so seriously ill. [10]
Though my father revered Plato and Aristotle, he did not, apparently, take very seriously the contention that that government alone is good "which seeks to attain the permanent interests of the governed by evolving the character of its citizens. [9]
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. [7]
It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead --the other man again. [5]
She did not reply, but looked at her seriously. [2]
She did not reply by any word, but nodded quaintly, and blinked seriously and yet blithely on him. [11]
I would seriously recommend to the government of the United States that when a man commits a crime so heinous that the law provides no adequate punishment for it, they make him Consul General to Tangier. [5]
Set in a recess of the wall and illumined with electric light was an oil-painting the show-woman seriously declared to be a lifelike and realistic picture of the Chair in which the Mother sat when she composed her 'inspired' work. [5]
While Scott was read at the North for his knowledge of human nature, as he always will be read, the chivalric age which moves in his pages was taken more seriously at the South, as if it were of continuing importance in life. [4]
That lawyer finished quite seriously, and with dignity. [5]
It took itself quite seriously, and was lovably comical. [5]
Learned military authorities quite seriously tell us that Kutuzov should have moved his army to the Kaluga road long before reaching Fili, and that somebody actually submitted such a proposal to him. [2]
Could it be possible that he was seriously affected? [5]
Girls out of pinafores must begin seriously to consider some calling. [4]
A good many people were hurt, some of them seriously, and among them Philip Sterling was found bent across the seat, insensible, with his left arm hanging limp and a bleeding wound on his head. [5]
The years had passed without his seriously thinking of this inevitable day. [11]
I'm seriously put out with you. [9]
A poor poem or essay does not do much harm after all; nobody reads it who is like to be seriously hurt by it. [6]
But the general opinion concerning the queer husband of "the most distinguished woman in Petersburg" was so well established that no one took his freaks seriously. [2]
He found it only too easy to sing her praises; but as he did so with growing enthusiasm Katharina hit him on the arm exclaiming, half in jest and half seriously vexed: "Oh, she is a goddess! [10]
On the 12th, one who was seriously sick. [3]
Well, time ran on, and there came a time when I was able to gratify one of my youthful ambitions--I could buy the choicest Havana cigars without seriously interfering with my income. [5]

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