Use solely in a sentence
Sentences starting with solely
- Solely for her gratification, Nickel stole the goose and the hens. [10]
Sentences ending with solely
- It was a question of atmosphere solely. [11]
- He attended enough longtimes, reflecting all solely. [5]
- He attended enough long times, reflecting all solely. [5]
More example sentences with the word solely in them
- We trust our young friend will take these remarks in good part, for we mean them solely for his benefit. [5]
- And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? [14]
- I stand here with clean hands, impelled solely by the impulse of my heart, to plead for the Queen. [10]
- He claims credits which belong solely to his Maker. [5]
- At first people were inclined to make a hero of him, but that only made him grin the more, and at last the island reluctantly decided that he had done the work solely for fee and reward. [11]
- It would be well if that applied solely to the musician. [10]
- At first Ulrich was not specially pleased with his new companions, for in the strangely visionary life he led, he had depended solely upon himself and "Fortune," and the figures living in his imagination were the most enjoyable society to him. [10]
- She said she was not satisfied with it, and didn't know whether she would keep it or not; that if she kept it, it would be solely out of tenderness for the King's honor. [5]
- The soft-hearted West was made to believe that the rebellion had been solely on his account. [4]
- I am not vain enough to believe that it was love, that it was solely the spell of my own personality which drew him to me in that disastrous hour. [10]
- Many glances were undoubtedly directed at her, the daughter of the dead woman in whose memory so many citizens had gathered; many, perhaps, had come solely to see the beautiful Es. [10]
- Moses and Aaron, too, had gone away, taking Hur's grandson with them; but no one had deemed her, who lived and breathed solely for her people and their welfare, worthy to learn whither their journey led or what was its purpose. [10]
- This was done to strengthen the courtiers and the citizens of Ratisbon in the belief that Barbara owed his favour solely to her singing. [10]
- It is solely to please her that you, a free man, remain with me. [10]
- Was this due to jealousy or merely wounded vanity at being supplanted in a heart which he firmly believed belonged, though only in bitter hate, solely to him? [10]
- He, Proclus, was to have the high honour of including the royal lady among his guests solely on Hermon's account, and his refusal would be an insult to the Queen. [10]
- For the first time he, the Jacobite, dared to confess so much to himself; and not solely for Paula's sake. [10]
- The danger which threatened Apollodorus and his guests was indeed imminent, and it had been provoked solely by the indignation of the excited mob at seeing the wealthy Israelite's house unadorned for the feast. [10]
- Arsinoe soon followed this example, nor was this solely on account of Pollux who, by the prefect's orders, had been enlisted among the artists to whom the arrangement of the display was entrusted, in spite of the objections of his master Papias. [10]
- Twain; but I think those things are made solely in the interest of the burglars. [5]
- He must now think solely of regaining his sight. [10]
- The Coroner believed the story solely because Orlando's frankness and straightforwardness filled him with confidence. [11]
- Her husband left the settlement of the business connected with her inheritance solely to her. [10]
- I suppose that the most cultivated and best informed portion of the earth's surface--the Western Reserve of Ohio, as free from conceit as it is from a suspicion that it lacks anything owes its pre-eminence solely to this comprehensive journal. [4]
- The escape of the fugitives depended solely upon their reaching the boat unseen, and the surest way to accomplish this was to use the subterranean passage which the architect had again opened. [10]
- Laws must be the direct expression of the will of the majority, and be altered solely on its will. [4]
- So if, as that gentleman said, a book does consist solely of ideas, that is the best argument in the world that it is property, and should not be under any limitation at all. [5]
- Nor was it solely to soothe Eva that she assured her that, deeply as she mourned the death of the hapless Ulrich and his parents' grief, Wolff's deed could not diminish either her love or her hope of becoming his. [10]
- His heart belonged solely to Katterle, but towards Eva he obeyed the old trait inherent in his nature, and clung with the same loyalty hitherto evinced for his master to her whom he now regarded as his future mistress. [10]
- He was supported solely by what his art brought and his wealthy uncle allowed him. [10]
- This was caused solely by meeting her cousins again; but if any one should ask her whether Daphne preferred Myrtilus or Hermon, she could not give a positive answer. [10]
- It was created solely by Cleopatra's jealous imagination. [10]
- With the higher social animals, I am not aware that any structure has been modified solely for the good of the community, though some are of secondary service to it. [1]
- As I have said, the average German daily is made up solely of correspondences--a trifle of it by telegraph, the rest of it by mail. [5]
- We must regard Rivington as a kind of purgatory, not solely a place of departed spirits, but of those which have not yet arrived; as one of the many temporary abodes of the Great Unattached. [9]
- Of course the Professor acquires his information solely through his cranial inspections and manipulations.--What are you laughing at? [6]
- He went on playing in the mud just the same, and enjoying it, too; but, instead of splashing around in the Thames solely for the fun of it, he began to find an added value in it because of the washings and cleansings it afforded. [5]
- Beside the stump on which his friend had died, he prayed long and earnestly, vowing to his dead preserver to live henceforth solely for his family. [10]
- It depended solely on herself to make him feel this in her arms. [10]
- Others consisted solely of Cossack cavalry. [2]
- True, she had not thought solely of her son's entreaty. [10]
- And he would not take what he intended to create solely from the world of reality perceptible to the senses. [10]
- Our aim is no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to avoid General Buxhowden who by right of seniority should be our chief. [2]
- Berenike bore her new dignity of grandmother with grateful joy, yet to-night she came oppressed by a grave anxiety, which was not solely due to her power of imagining gloomy events. [10]
- I gave the new commander no instructions as to the administration of the system mentioned, beyond what is contained in the private letter afterwards surreptitiously published, in which I directed him to act solely for the public good, and independently of both parties. [7]
- I commanded my mind to busy itself solely with the dull one. [5]
- As I talked merely to get a chance to inspect; and as I strung out the random rubbish solely to prolong the inspection, I judged it but decent to confess these low motives, and I did so. [5]
- What earthly possessions may perhaps come to him he will owe solely to my favour, and it would choose for him the only right way. [10]
- Better so, it may be, than to live solely for it, as so many do. [6]
- It was a marvellous bit of botchwork, and yet there was a certain meaning in the production, compiled solely from Homeric verses. [10]
- His face is livid, and the drops of perspiration on his brow are not due solely to the heat. [10]
- The explanation may lie in the fact that, with all animals, sympathy is directed solely towards the members of the same community, and therefore towards known, and more or less beloved members, but not to all the individuals of the same species. [1]
- Of course a large number of apparent cures were due solely to nature; which is true under every form of treatment, orthodox or empirical. [3]
- He had bought it solely because of his admiration for your ability, his faith in your name. [9]
- These are times in which we cannot live solely for selfish joys or griefs. [6]
- He must remain in Moscow, concealing his name, and must meet Napoleon and kill him, and either perish or put an end to the misery of all Europe--which it seemed to him was solely due to Napoleon. [2]
- His heart was in his head, and the head thought solely of Etienne Mahye. [11]
- He had existed in her mind solely as an obliging shopkeeper with whom Lily had unlimited credit, and who handed her over the counter such things as she desired. [9]
- I suppose that in all that country he alone had noticed the sunsets, and observed the delightful processes of the seasons, taken pleasure in the woods for themselves, and climbed mountains solely for the sake of the prospect. [4]
- Paseth, the jealous husband, had spared her life and refrained from going at once to kill the artist solely because Hermon had saved his little daughter at his own peril from the burning house. [10]
- When solely used, however, it produces acrid humors, a fact which sufficiently accounts for the humorous character of the Kanakas. [5]
- Because it puts him in the attitude of always looking out for his own comfort and advantage; whereas an unselfish man often does a thing solely for another person's good when it is a positive disadvantage to himself. [5]
- He saw in him a remarkable, clear-thinking man of vast intellect who by his energy and persistence had attained power, which he was using solely for the welfare of Russia. [2]
- Yet he had heard that his estates had been sequestrated, and that he owed it solely to the influence of Archibius and his uncle, that his property, like that of so many others, had not been added to the royal treasures. [10]
- These precious rolls had aided him to maintain the proud conviction of owing everything which he attained or possessed solely to himself. [10]
- The motive to give aid is likewise much modified in man: it no longer consists solely of a blind instinctive impulse, but is much influenced by the praise or blame of his fellows. [1]
- Dion himself had formed many a brief connection, but for that very reason he could not place a woman like Barine on the same footing with those whose love he had perhaps owed solely to his wealth. [10]
- At last anguish forced even the clearest memories into oblivion: she saw nothing save the tortures of her lover; her brain, still active, revealed solely the gulf at her feet, and the tomb which yawned not only for Antony, but for herself. [10]
- Her gaze was fixed solely upon the one sun to which the little stars around her owed their paler or brighter radiance. [10]
- It was, in fact, solely to meet Prince Vasili that she had obtained an invitation to Anna Pavlovna's reception and had sat listening to the vicomte's story. [2]
- In their narration events occur solely by the will of a Napoleon, and Alexander, or in general of the persons they describe. [2]
- In these times each man lived solely to spite his neighbor, and he who could be most brazenly selfish, looking neither to the right hand nor to the left, was the most certain to get on in life. [10]
- The Doctor rode down to the Dudley mansion solely for the sake of seeing old Sophy. [6]
- Some instincts are determined solely by painful feelings, as by fear, which leads to self-preservation, and is in some cases directed towards special enemies. [1]
- Far from thinking constantly, like her, solely of others and their welfare, I should only too often, selfish as I now am, be mindful of myself. [10]
- Vogt's caustic style charmed me, but it was not due solely to the religious convictions which I had brought from my home and from Keilhau that I perceived that here a sharp sword was swung by a strong arm to cut water. [10]
- Yet with what bold assurance he had protested that his heart belonged solely to her. [10]
- She did not believe that Tull had been actuated solely by his minister's zeal to save her soul. [13]
- It could scarcely be solely anxiety about his expected goods that burdened her lover's mind. [10]
- We must, however, be cautious in concluding that the wings are spread out solely for display, as some birds do so whose wings are not beautiful. [1]
- During long business association people become well acquainted, even though their conversations relate solely to direction and execution. [10]
- The marquise then angrily declared that a Marquise de Leria could accept such a favour without a blush solely from his Majesty. [10]
- All the contradictions and obscurities of history and the false path historical science has followed are due solely to the lack of a solution of that question. [2]
- Over forty years after, Irving made a detour, on his way from Madrid to Paris, to visit Tonneins, drawn thither solely by the recollection of this incident, vaguely hoping perhaps to apologize to the tender-hearted villagers for the imposition. [4]
- Her thoughts and acts, all her love and solicitude, referred solely to the invalid in her care. [10]
- He had felt a strong aversion to Siebenburg from their first meeting, and the slanderous words with which he had dragged in the dust the good name of a maiden who, Heinz knew, had incurred suspicion solely through his fault, had filled him with scorn. [10]
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