5943 examples of fairly in sentences

When she had fairly got her head through the opening, and was no longer afraid of being seen, she breathed more freely.

He saw nothing and heard nothing until on the grandstand he perceived a slender girlish form arise, wave a banner, and fairly scream: "Dick!

"But when you go at it again, do it fairly, or you'll get the worst of it.

I will never go into the work-shop of any great artist again, nor desire a sight of his picture, till it is fairly off the easel; no, not if Raphael were to be alive again, and painting another Galatea.

Of the policy of such a measure great doubts may fairly be entertained, inasmuch as the vacations are so short as to give sufficient respite neither to master nor scholar; and these occasional breaks, in the arduous duties of the former more especially, enable him to repair the exhausted energies of body and mind by necessary relaxation.

Lamb's connection with the Temple was fairly continuous until 1817, when he was thirty-eight.

in the Ware road, there to have made up my accounts with heaven and the Company, toddling about between it and Cheshunt, anon stretching on some fine Izaac Walton morning, to Hoddsdon or Amwell, careless as a Beggar, but walking walking ever till I fairly walkd myself off my legs, dying walking.

The Peace made by that very able statesman, the Earl of Shelburne, now Marquis of Lansdown, which may fairly be considered as the foundation of all the prosperity of Great Britain since that time.

Now, as Grace, her own daughter, was the only lady of the party who could reasonably be supposed to have much influence over John's movementsa young gentleman seldom caring as much for his own as for other people's sisters, this may be fairly set down as a pretty broad hint of the opinion the dowager entertained of the real state of things; and John saw it, and Grace saw it.

" Jarvis threw, and John fired: the hat fairly bounced.

An abundance of fairly dry wood was at hand.

He is now a member of the bar, he has become the managing clerk, he attends to fairly important matters, engages the office force, superintends transfer of title, occasionally argues a motion.

The old job is fairly easy; they can't get on without him, they say; here is where he belongs; he knows his businessgive him his thirty-five hundred a year and let him stay!

Mr. Badger fairly flew back to his office.

To a Little Girl Oh, little girl with eyes of brown And smiles that fairly light the town, I wonder if you really know Just why it is we love you so, And whywith all the little girls With shining eyes and tangled curls That throng and dance this big world through Our hearts have room for only you.

Couldn't Live Without You You're just a little fellow with a lot of funny ways, Just three-foot-six of mischief set with eyes that fairly blaze; You're always up to something with those busy hands o' yours, And you leave a trail o' ruin on the walls an' on the doors, An' I wonder, as I watch you, an' your curious tricks I see, Whatever is the reason that you mean so much to me.

From our camp, which was situated about eight miles west of Mount Murchison, we fairly commenced the exploration of unknown country.

A Jew's eye is a costly thing; but a Jew's conversion is much more expensive; you can't get at the thing fairly for less than 10,000 pounds; and as five good Wesleyan Chapels could be built, in ordinary districts, for that sum, we advise Wesleyans to go in for chapels and not for Jews.

Some few fairly recent ballads have been included, but for the most part no attempt has been made to include any of the more ambitious literary productions of modern writers.

His father and mother had lived upon fairly good terms with all their neighbors, but had formed no very close bonds with any.

Then he notched the end of the fifteen-foot log, and into the notch he drove the wedges, and so, towards evening, as much, maybe, by good luck as good management, he had divided the log into two halvesthe split running very fairly down the center.

As it is, matters are going on very fairly with the Imperial Commissioners, and I expect an official visit from them this day at noon.

The boys had learned from Señor José that the owner of the plantation could understand English and even speak it fairly well.

They represent at this, moment the only legal authority which seems to us to have fairly understood the difficulties of the situation, and if, in the case of all hope of conciliation being lost, they should tell us to take up arms, we will do so.

The school which arose expressed fairly the unrest and unruliness of the time, its weariness of artificial restraint and unmeaning laws, its craving after a nobler and a more earnest life, its sense of a glory and mystery in the physical universe, hidden from the poets of the two preceding centuries, and now revealed by science.

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