Use simply in a sentence
Sentences starting with simply
- Simply the responsibility that so cruelly shortened the Emperor's youth, and which at least grazes you. [10]
- Simply at the point I started from, namely, those oyster shells are there, in regular layers, five hundred feet above the sea, and no man knows how they got there. [5]
- Simply (if for nothing else) for the variety they would have made in a rather monotonous history of Federal servility and helplessness, it is a pity they were not fated to hold office together in Utah. [5]
- Simply this: we must not only let them alone, but we must, somehow, convince them that we do let them alone. [7]
- Simply this: you must get married. [10]
- Simply that I might remember that I had once assisted to discomfort you, and be reminded to do so no more. [5]
- Simply to invade her father's lodging without farther ceremony, seemed to him out of the question, and yet he was certain of finding her there, since her injured foot would of course keep her at home. [10]
- Simply because these good painefull or painstaking persons proved to be such nuisances in the long run, that the word "painefull" came, before people thought of it, to mean pain-giving instead of painstaking. [6]
- Simply it was gone, and had left no sign. [5]
- Simply this: all "methods" of treatment end in disappointment of those extravagant expectations which men are wont to entertain of medical art. [3]
Sentences ending with simply
- What was the use of amassing money, when happiness was to be had so simply? [9]
- He now wheeled upon Cayley, and said sternly: "I warn you to speak with less insolence; we had better talk simply. [11]
- They had enough to live on simply. [11]
- She took it simply. [9]
- And yet how simply! [9]
- We went to school together," he explained simply. [9]
- We live very plainly, sir, very simply. [9]
- He has an income of his own, though he likes to live so simply. [9]
- This is my daughter," he added simply. [9]
- Please let us be friends, friends simply. [11]
Short sentences using simply
- I was now simply soul. [4]
- I simply can't like him. [9]
- They are simply indifferent. [4]
- These are simply incredibilities. [5]
- It was simply impossible. [5]
- This was simply astounding. [5]
- No, Alison," he answered simply. [9]
- I simply shuddered. [5]
- I'm simply broken-hearted. [11]
- Simply flying. [11]
Sentences containing simply two or more times
- These early ancestors of man, thus seen in the dim recesses of time, must have been as simply, or even still more simply organised than the lancelet or amphioxus. [1]
- But the American Girl has not simply a slender figure and a fine eye and a ready tongue, she is not simply an engaging and companionable person, she has excellent common-sense, tact, and adaptability. [4]
More example sentences with the word simply in them
- She was a young woman of thirty, slim to spareness, simply dressed in a shirtwaist and a dark blue skirt; alert, so distinctly American in type as to give a suggestion of the Indian. [9]
- Turn it as you will it is simply the truth! [7]
- I simply ask you to come to see me when you find time. [13]
- I've no doubt you know something about them, and that you would maintain they are justified on account of the indifference of the public, and of other reasons, but I can cite an instance that is simply legalized thieving. [9]
- I must congratulate you and Howard on being sensible enough to start your married life simply, in the country. [9]
- He did not yet urge his affection on her, he was simply devoted, and watchful, and tender, and delightedly hopeful. [11]
- I had simply written her that after the campaign I had gone for a rest to California; yet in her letters to me, after this information had reached her, I detected a restrained anxiety and affection that troubled me. [9]
- My own history would really seem so tame contrasted with that of my ancestors, that it is simply wisdom to leave it unwritten until I am hanged. [5]
- Every thing was worn out--every block of stone was smooth and almost shapeless with the polishing hands and shoulders of loungers who devoutly idled here in by-gone centuries and have died and gone to the dev--no, simply died, I mean. [5]
- Captive in a world bounded by a man's will, she simply did not begin to understand this strange and overpowering creature who had taken possession of her body, mind and soul. [11]
- And faith without works was dead simply because there could be no faith without works. [9]
- I said these words did him extreme credit, but that he must not throw away the imperishable distinction of being the first man to descend an Alp per parachute, simply to save the feelings of some envious underlings. [5]
- She was indignant with the Brandon scrupulousness; it chafed her.. Was this simply because she loved her husband, or was this indignation a little due also to her liking for the world which so fell in with her inclinations? [4]
- He was born with a most comfortable belief in himself and the knowledge that when he decided to become a domestic man he had simply, as the phrase is, to throw his handkerchief. [4]
- I was always willing to live more simply than you. [8]
- Those among them who have money take their pleasure simply and with the least expense of physical energy. [4]
- In Philip's story, which was very slowly maturing, the heroine fell in love with a young man simply for himself, and regardless of the fact that he was poor and had his career to make. [4]
- With a throb which was an exquisite pain, she understood now the compassion in Austen's eyes, and she saw so simply and so clearly why he had not told her that her face burned with the shame of her demand. [9]
- I don't know whether the piece I mentioned from the French author was intended simply as Natural History, or whether there was not a little malice in his description. [6]
- The time came when they associated The Man with The Stone: they grew to speak of him simply as The Man. [11]
- I was glad when he joined me and asked, as simply as though he were merely inquiring the way, why he had never seen me, the loveliest among the beauties in the temple, in Tennis. [10]
- She could say what she did not think--especially what was flattering--quite simply and naturally. [2]
- You don't know what it is to have an inferior person condescend to you simply because he is a man. [4]
- Her rare visits were perfunctory, and gave little satisfaction to any of us; not that she was ungracious or unkindly, but simply because the things we valued in life were not the same. [4]
- The occasional voices were not given to much speaking--you simply heard a gentle ejaculation of "Ow! [5]
- I remember," she went on, simply, dreamily, and as if talking to herself, "the day when we first came to the Bridge House. [11]
- One was that we did not honor a family, or a dynasty, or a title, but a character; and the other was that we did not exalt any living man, but simply the office of President. [4]
- She led the way simply, not speaking, and her silence seemed to betoken the completeness of an understanding between them, as of a long acquaintance. [9]
- He simply stopped washing, leaned forward and surveyed the clean, blank ground a moment, and then remarked: "Mph! [5]
- No person, as was said long ago, could judge him, because his task was not merely difficult, but simply impracticable to human powers. [6]
- To her this was not a means of livelihood, but simply that she might be of service to those all about her who needed help more than she did. [4]
- That the education was mainly left to McDonald, and that her parents were simply anxious about her safety, she did not learn till long afterwards. [4]
- This ancient temple was built of rough blocks of lava, and was simply a roofless inclosure a hundred and thirty feet long and seventy wide --nothing but naked walls, very thick, but not much higher than a man's head. [5]
- If you simply want to enjoy yourselves, stay at this hotel--there is no better place--sit on the piazza, look at the mountains, and watch the world as it comes round. [4]
- I am simply using you for a target to bang at. [5]
- Virginia, you know, used to be famous for its good living, and Maryland was simply unapproachable for good cooking. [4]
- She sank back upon the couch again as though the effort to achieve my courtesy had unnerved her, and she murmured simply and painfully: "Thank you very much: I have travelled far. [11]
- The moon was up, the stars rose higher and higher, so, simply saying: "Come away," she rose. [10]
- I rose joyfully up and butted the wash-bowl and pitcher off the stand and simply raised----so to speak. [5]
- He was simply unquenchable and continuous. [11]
- It is quite true that many things which look to me suspicious may be simply playful. [6]
- It is perfectly true that a woman is her own excuse for being, and in a way she is doing enough for the world by simply being a woman. [4]
- Her dress was trimmed with what we simply mistook for scalps, and supposed it was in honor of the nation; but we blushed at our ignorance on discovering that it was a gorgeous trimming of marten tips. [4]
- He has not translated it at all; he has simply mixed it all up; it is no more like the jumping Frog when he gets through with it than I am like a meridian of longitude. [5]
- When she was touched, she jerked her bound legs and looked wildly yet simply at everybody. [2]
- Indeed Miss Bronte told me that, before publication, she had sent those parts of the novel in which these remarkable persons are introduced, to one of the sons; and his reply, after reading it, was simply that "she had not drawn them strong enough. [14]
- I come close to you, and something new in me cries out simply, 'I love you, Alixe, I love you! [11]
- I now recur to these things simply to remind you of the general views which I have expressed, and which I still hold. [7]
- I did go to the Tribune office to see if such an article was wanted, because I belonged on the regular staff of that paper and it was simply a duty to do it. [5]
- Do I have to tell you why the order has remained unissued, or can you explain so simply a thing without my help? [5]
- It was impossible to take bread and clothes from our hungry and indispensable soldiers to give to the French who, though not harmful, or hated, or guilty, were simply unnecessary. [2]
- Referring their origin to some sort of an election, their continuance seems to rest simply on forbearance. [4]
- I was coming to see you this morning, but I simply didn't have time for a call after I got to town. [9]
- For military science to say this is like defining momentum in mechanics by reference to the mass only: stating that momenta are equal or unequal to each other simply because the masses involved are equal or unequal. [2]
- I beg leave to say that my resignation is not sent in in any spirit of insubordination, but, as I before said, simply to relieve you from any embarrassment in changing commanders where lack of confidence may have rendered it necessary. [7]
- People were content to relax their exertions to satisfy their curiosity, and simply to sit down and greatly admire. [14]
- He rose simply to protest against the doctrine which the gentleman from Indiana had avowed in the course of what he [Mr. Lincoln] could not but consider an unsound argument. [7]
- This argument, reduced to plain terms, is simply this: that the mass of mankind are unfit to decide properly their own political and social condition; and that for the mass of mankind any but a very limited mental development is to be deprecated. [4]
- No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. [6]
- But I hastened to make amends for my rudeness, and say, "I simply meant I had not had the honor--for I would not deliberately speak discourteously of a friend of yours. [5]
- I do long to know whether I am only simply a large-sized pigmy among these pigmies here, who tumble over so easily when one strikes them, or whether I am really--. [5]
- In his letter to her he had simply said that it were wiser not to write, since the acting postmistress, the Cure's sister, would note the exchange of letters, and this would arouse suspicion. [11]
- I came simply to help him and you. [2]
- We decided simply to force the other two parties in the society to nominate their very best men. [5]
- All she had to do was simply to stay put. [8]
- They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. [7]
- They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. [7]
- It proposes simply to co-operate with any State by giving such State pecuniary aid"; and he thought that the resolution, as proposed by him, would be considered rather as the expression of a sentiment than as involving any constitutional question. [7]
- It turned out to be simply because Pliny mentions them. [5]
- Again, he wished to be known simply as Mr. Roscoe, not as Captain Roscoe, which was his rank. [11]
- I simply resolved to be at a particular place, and I was there. [4]
- Those good old times are gone when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his troubles to sleep simply by getting out his bricks and mortar and building an addition to a church. [5]
- All objects seen through it had a bright, strong vividness, not only of outline, but of every minute detail, which they would not have had when seen simply through the same depth of atmosphere. [5]
- One would have thought that the most scrupulous person need not have hesitated in asserting an unquestioned legal and equitable claim simply because it had lain a certain number of years in abeyance. [6]
- If she had thought of them apprehensively, she would have said to herself, how easy to set all right by simply announcing the marriage! [11]
- Further boiled down, this vast outpouring of malice amounts to simply this: one jest from the Tribune (one can make nothing more serious than that out of it. [5]
- We forbear, in this place, attempting an answer to it, simply because, in our opinion, those who urge it are through party zeal resolved not to see or acknowledge the truth. [7]
- The fact that this one is lamellibranchiate in its formation, simply adds to its interest as being possibly of a different kind from any we read of in the records of science, but yet in no manner marring its authenticity. [5]
- Indeed at times they are deprived of food and drink for some days, simply to accustom them to privations. [10]
- The first of these things required tremendous effort, the last one, concerning Bess, seemed simply and naturally easy of accomplishment. [13]
- So you see there was simply nothing to be done now, but play their right bower--bring out the superbest of the superb, the mightiest of the mighty, the great Sir Launcelot himself! [5]
- What we saw there was simply a circular crater--a circular ditch, if you please--about two hundred feet deep, and four or five hundred feet wide, whose inner wall was about half a mile in circumference. [5]
- It is not, then, in anything exceptional that we are interested in the operations of Murad Ault, but simply on account of his fortuitous connection with a great fortune which had its origin in very much the same cyclonic conditions that Mr. Ault reveled in. [4]
- They simply helped themselves to whatever they fancied, and were, of course, in a position to strip the son of the great Mukaukas of all he possessed and reduce him to beggary. [10]
- If we arrest them, we cannot long hold them as prisoners, and when liberated they will immediately reassemble and take their action; and precisely the same if we simply disperse them--they will immediately reassemble in some other place. [7]
- She simply enjoyed their pleasure and tried to fit in with it. [2]
- They threw up their hands in speechless intimation that the road was simply paved with refreshment-peddlers. [5]
- And that other, the world of my dreams, simply did not exist. [9]
- Why she was the wife of Alexander the Great, and is long since dead, but I care only for the living, and when I left the merry tumult in the streets it was simply and solely--" "You excite my curiosity. [10]
- The scrap of the Virginia Central from Richmond to Hanover Junction, without more, is simply nothing. [7]
- The Secretary of the Treasury, pursuing me to the last, drew his pen through all the other items, and simply marked in the margin "Not allowed. [5]
- When we reached the top and got within the wall, we found simply a shallow, far-reaching basin, carpeted with ashes, and here and there a patch of fine sand. [5]
- Jake went to the tannery house and received his orders--orders of which he made a great mystery afterward at the store, although they consisted simply of directions to be prepared to drive Jethro to Brampton the next morning. [9]
- At that time, the Russians were so used to victories that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an event. [2]
- Boris came to the Rostovs' box, received their congratulations very simply, and raising his eyebrows with an absent-minded smile conveyed to Natasha and Sonya his fiancee's invitation to her wedding, and went away. [2]
- She and all the Rostov family welcomed him as an old friend, simply and cordially. [2]
- Climbing out of the ravine was, in most places, simply impossible; and I began to look with interest for a slide, where bushes rooted in the scant earth would enable me to scale the precipice. [4]
- He believed that the production of original types was simply infinite. [4]
- The proclamation in the point in question is simply "dictatorship. [7]
- In it was the petition to the Emperor drawn up by the auditor, in which Denisov, without alluding to the offenses of the commissariat officials, simply asked for pardon. [2]
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