Use specially in a sentence
Sentences starting with specially
- Specially was it provided with one of those half-doors now so rarely met with, which are to whole doors as spencers worn by old folk are to coats. [6]
- Specially if they mumble. [5]
- Specially sweet odors floated over to him from the hot surface of the stove before the booth, and he would have gladly allowed himself a plate of fresh cakes. [10]
Short sentences using specially
- The daughter specially attracted me. [10]
More example sentences with the word specially in them
- We can see why it is that aborigines, who have long inhabited islands, and who must have been long exposed to nearly uniform conditions, should be specially affected by any change in their habits, as seems to be the case. [1]
- You cannot forget who Number Seven is if I inform you that he specially prides himself on being a seventh son of a seventh son. [6]
- All this naked white human flesh, laughing and shrieking, floundered about in that dirty pool like carp stuffed into a watering can, and the suggestion of merriment in that floundering mass rendered it specially pathetic. [2]
- He became animated when he began reading his paper and specially drew Rostov's attention to the stinging rejoinders he made to his enemies. [2]
- But the responses were sickly, there was no starting any enthusiasm; he would give it up and quit--it was a day specially picked out and consecrated to failures. [5]
- All these points were duly considered, but could not shake the opinion that, under specially favourable conditions, the Queen's plan would be practicable; though, to execute it, obstacles mountain-high were to be conquered. [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]
- If the age was coarse in speech or specially affected in manner, the books followed the lead given by the demand; but, coarse or affected, they had the quality of art demanded by the best existing cultivation. [4]
- When the colony was about eighteen or twenty years old it was discovered that the land was specially fitted for the wool-culture. [5]
- There is something very pleasant about all this, but what specially strikes me is a curious flavor of city provincialism. [6]
- Her teacher specially valued this master and his countryman Gombert, and his exquisite compositions were frequently and gladly sung at the Convivium. [10]
- What is the use of being my mother's son, and the fat little fellow isn't specially scrupulous! [10]
- Siebenburg now looked up at the huge escutcheon and recalled the day when, after having been specially favoured by Isabella Eysvogel at a dance in the Town Hall, he had paused in the same place. [10]
- It was not until October that they were able to remove her to Riverdale, and then only in a specially arranged invalid-car. [5]
- They fairly cracked under the pressure of the thumb, yet wheat rolls had been baked specially for the Nuremberg party. [10]
- When sleep threatened to overpower her she thought of her mother's last words, especially one phrase, "the forge fire of life," which seemed specially pregnant with meaning. [10]
- She had drawn to her the roughest men in the troop, and for old Sewell, the grim sergeant, she had a specially warm place. [11]
- I was induced to authorize a gentleman to bring Roger A. Pryor here with a view of effecting an exchange of him; but since then I have seen a despatch of yours showing that you specially object to his exchange. [7]
- That bears witness to a specially independent comprehension of things. [10]
- We mounted slowly through splendid forests, specially of fine chestnuts and hemlocks. [4]
- No doubt if their colours had been brilliant, they would have been much more conspicuous to their enemies; but whether their dull tints have been specially gained for the sake of protection seems, as far as I can judge, rather doubtful. [1]
- He knew that the visitor was specially favored who penetrated these precincts so far as to get an interview, usually fruitless, with Henderson's confidential man. [4]
- In spite of the violent aching of her foot and the loud rattling in her chest, she thought it a specially favourable dispensation of Providence that she had found her way here just at this moment; for Lienhard was still speaking. [10]
- In historic events the rule forbidding us to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge is specially applicable. [2]
- The overpowering of the little garrison in the storehouse of Pithom had occurred under specially favorable circumstances, which could hardly be expected to happen again, so the original plan must be changed, and an attempt made to take a circuit around the fortifications. [10]
- The insecurity of the high-roads had injured every merchant, but in trying to find some explanation for Herr Ortlieb's submission the attacks which had cost him one and another train of wares were regarded as specially disastrous. [10]
- The day before the election a friend said to me that my election expenses must be very large specially my hotel bills, and offered to lend me some money. [5]
- Before Maria restored the bible to its old place, she opened it at the thirteenth chapter of the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, which speaks of love, and was specially dear to her. [10]
- The command of the Army of Virginia is specially assigned to Major-General John Pope, as commanding general. [7]
- I can but take up some of the points that he has dwelt upon, and employ my half-hour specially on them. [7]
- Nor is it strange that variations in the tail-feathers of the Urosticte should have been specially selected for the sake of ornament, for the next succeeding genus in the family takes its name of Metallura from the splendour of these feathers. [1]
- There was something specially winning and lovable about her, and I have heard that this lady, my mother's oldest sister, possessed in her youth the same dazzling beauty. [10]
- There was something specially to mark to-day; I met an old acquaintance again. [10]
- There was nothing specially to distinguish him from a dozen others, who led the same life of vacuity, of mild dissipation, of enforced pleasure. [4]
- I need not specially mention the other boarders, with the exception of Benjamin Franklin, the landlady's son, who sits near his mother. [6]
- Indeed it was specially good fortune, for she was to have two lodgers instead of one. [5]
- Yesterday in a specially gloomy hour, he spoke of gold. [10]
- He intended it specially for your Bessie. [10]
- Age is not specially considerate to age. [10]
- Simnel = a sort of biscuit, cup-shaped, supposed to represent unleavened bread, specially eaten at Easter. [11]
- From that time she claimed his services as eagerly as before, but in her own heart felt as if she were his little mother, and watched all his actions as though specially commissioned to do so. [10]
- But Myrtle, he said, had always been specially cared for. [6]
- My mother also remembered the Napoleonic days, and I thought she had been specially favoured in seeing this great man when he entered Rotterdam, and also Goethe. [10]
- After some discussion on the subject, and a stipulation that she should not be specially introduced to any one, some gentlemen were invited by Mr. Smith to meet her at dinner the evening before she left town. [14]
- A hard ridge on an adjoining part of the body serves as the scraper for the rasp, but this scraper in some cases has been specially modified for the purpose. [1]
- The depressing influences of the insurrection have been specially felt in the operations of the Patent and General Land Offices. [7]
- After the thunderstorm of the day before the air was specially fresh and pure; it was a pleasure merely to breathe. [10]
- During the hours of rest which must follow labour, and when tortured at night by the various painful feelings and conditions connected even with convalescence from disease, my restrictions rose before me as a specially heavy misfortune. [10]
- The bright colours of many butterflies and of some moths are specially arranged for display, so that they may be readily seen. [1]
- But the worst of it is that each student is in need of a little library specially adapted to his wants. [6]
- A new manner of death invented specially for the Alexandrians! [10]
- I'll take care not to tell you next time, when I think I am looking specially old and ugly; as if people could not have that privilege, without being supposed to be at the last gasp! [14]
- Perhaps I should not have ventured to ask you to look at this old volume, if it had not been for the fact that Dr. Johnson mentions Morohof as the author to whom he was specially indebted.--more, I think, than to any other. [6]
- Neither the upper nor the lower tusks appear to have been specially modified to act as guards, though no doubt they are to a certain extent used for this purpose. [1]
- Shouts of joy mingled with yells of fury; and awakened the conjecture that the sea had washed some specially valuable prize ashore. [10]
- It seems to me that the officials ought to specially and urgently request the public to report unworded affronts and incivilities. [5]
- But what specially marks him, he is a chief example of the illumination of the intellect by the force of morals. [6]
- But the thing looked horribly red and ugly, so he rejected it, and painted--imitating one of Titian's angels, which specially pleased him--a tiny Cupid, holding a heart in his hand. [10]
- She had never known the necessity of making friends: hers she had inherited, and for some reason specially decreed, they were better than those of less fortunate people. [9]
- Karataev had told it to him alone some half-dozen times and always with a specially joyful emotion. [2]
- Besides, she regarded it as specially fortunate that she learned through him many things concerning Heinz Schorlin, which for her sister's sake she was glad to know. [10]
- This, of course, is specially true in our American system, where we have a chartered right to the thing itself. [4]
- It is my intention to give this subject all the consideration I possibly can before specially deciding in regard to it, so that when I do speak it may be as nearly right as possible. [7]
- It is as if the circumstances were specially made for it. [5]
- Captain John Smith, however, interfered with a project specially suited to his abilities and congenial to his tastes. [4]
- Many of my honored critics have censured these scenes; others, among whom are some whose opinion I specially value, have lavished the kindest praise upon them. [10]
- It was the home of the bride, wrapped in a perfect conflagration of illuminations,--mainly gas-work designs, gotten up specially for the occasion. [5]
- He screwed up his eyes with a dissatisfied look as he gazed attentively and fixedly at these prisoners, who presented a specially wretched appearance. [2]
- While so doing his cheeks were torn open, and the evil deed neither pleased him nor specially strengthened his love for the count. [10]
- Here Balashev hesitated: he remembered the words the Emperor Alexander had not written in his letter, but had specially inserted in the rescript to Saltykov and had told Balashev to repeat to Napoleon. [2]
- A position more hateful, even to a person not specially socially inclined, cannot be imagined than that of always being watched, and never having any assured privacy. [4]
- The subject which has specially interested Number Five and myself, of late, was suggested to me in the following way. [6]
- Mr. Clement, however, had so many other questions to ask him about everybody in the village, more particularly concerning certain young persons in whom he seemed to be specially interested, that there was no chance to work in his own revelations of sentiment. [6]
- After Mrs. Chandos had smoked three of the cigarettes which her host specially imported from Egypt, she declared, with no superabundance of enthusiasm, that she was ready to go and see what Trixy had in the "stables. [9]
- For twenty years had he still preserved this jar of wine for some specially happy occasion. [10]
- All that he had been specially put in charge of, the state property which he should have removed, was still in Moscow and it was no longer possible to take the whole of it away. [2]
- But he often fancied that his mother's statue in the tablinum looked specially happy when the young mistress of the house entered it. [10]
- But her early experience that what she expected with specially joyful security rarely happened,--constantly forced upon her mind the, fear that the dead man's will would consign John to the cloister. [10]
- Compared with that, even standing in the pillory was not specially grievous. [10]
- One among them, especially, was the object of her admiration, as she was of all who knew her exceptional powers in the line for which nature had specially organized her. [6]
- Thence she really did set out upon the pilgrimage to Santiago di Compostella; but St. James, the patron saint of the Spaniards, whose untiring mercy so many praised, did not prove specially favourable to her. [10]
- The young wife did not suffer specially from the long famine, while it caused Barbara pain and unstrung her vigorous frame. [10]
- Such was the case here, and of late it had become specially firm; for each needed the other's aid. [10]
- Here, however, we are more specially concerned with the complete external disappearance of the tail. [1]
- If there is any one accomplishment specially belonging to princes, it is that of making the persons they meet feel at ease. [6]
- It is no answer to that assertion to call Trumbull a liar merely because he did not specially say that Douglas struck it out. [7]
- It is not an exciting landscape, nothing bold or specially wild in it, but restful with the monotony of some of the wooded Pennsylvania hills. [4]
- It would make an excellent cannon-ball, and would be specially fatal if it hit an enemy in the stomach. [4]
- Society, which in America does not identify itself with politics as it does in England, was not specially attracted by the newspaper notoriety of the place, although, fashion to some extent declared in favor of Elberon. [4]
- This courtyard had always seemed to her a stage specially suitable for the display of royal magnificence, and yet, in spite of its stately size, it would be difficult to imagine anything more pleasant, more thoroughly secluded. [10]
- During this conversation Althea had come to Thyone's side, and, as Hermon had already spoken to her of the Arachne, she eagerly expressed her belief that this work seemed as if it were specially created for him. [10]
- But hardest of all for Eva to bear were the bitter words with which he wounded her, and which sounded specially sharp and hostile when he reproached her for standing between Heinz Schorlin and the eternal salvation for which the knight so eagerly longed. [10]
- Domesticated animals alone afford the means of ascertaining the proportional numbers at birth; but no records have been specially kept for this purpose. [1]
- Many of our adversaries are anxious to claim that they are specially devoted to the Union, and take pains to charge upon us hostility to the Union. [7]
- One day after a round of receptions, in which Jack had been specially disgruntled, and when he was alone in the drawing-room of the hotel with Carmen, his manner was so positively rude to her that she could not but notice it. [4]
- I know there's a lot in it for them that need it; and there seems to be a lot of folks needing it, if I'm to judge by folks down there at Jansen, specially when there's the laying-on of hands and the Healing Springs. [11]
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