So she came over on the first boat, ostensibly to visit her family, but really to ask Mr. Vantine's permission to open the drawer and take out the letters.

I left him ostensibly alone, but in reality shadowed him.

The feminoid is ostensibly a man, with a good deal of woman in him.

Ostensibly they supplied blankets, guns, food, and other necessities to the tribes, but there was a strong suspicion that they made their profit in whiskey smuggled across the plains.

"CONSULTATION SET FOR MIDNIGHT TO-NIGHT TAKING YOUR ADVICE SHALL NOT ATTEND BUT LEAVE FOR BRIGHTON ELEVEN P.M." A message ostensibly so open and aboveboard that it hadn't been thought worth while to hide its wording under the cloak of a code.

This idea of private judgment is what separates the Catholics from the Protestants; not most ostensibly, but most vitally.

After the leaders of the allies had settled affairs at Paris, they reassembled at Vienna,ostensibly to reconstruct the political system of Europe and secure a lasting peace; in reality, to divide among the conquerors the spoils taken from the vanquished.

Adj. ostensibly &c (manifest) 525; alleged, apologetic; pretended &c 545.

ostensibly; under color; under the plea, under the pretense of, under the guise of. 3. Objects of Volition 618.

Every effort to get these seeds (kernels), which are used over the whole of Eastern Asia as medicine, to germinate miscarried, they having been boiled before transmission, ostensibly for their preservation, but most probably to secure the monopoly of them.

This strong and terrible band, we are told, is under the command of a chief who remains hidden and mute, while ostensibly it obeys the Pyats, Delescluzes, and Rocheforts, politicians, who not being generals, never condescend to fight.

The dynastic dispute, whilst ostensibly healed at its head, still affected the limbs of the Duchy.

It did not matter to whom a remark was ostensibly addressedalways at its conclusion the speaker glanced more or less openly toward Miss Hugonin.

Meanwhile the Prince himself was divided between his affection for the beautiful heiress and his desire to shake off the yoke of the Cardinal-Minister, to which he submitted with ill-disguised impatience; and thus, although less ostensibly, each faction continued to intrigue as busily as ever. FOOTNOTES: Mercure Français, 1621.

That distinguished expert, while the others were speaking, had been listening intently; ostensibly, the while, he examined the picture with a show of trained skill that, it seemed, could not fail to detect unerringly those more subtle values and defects that are popularly supposed to be hidden from the common eye.

"You two certainly are expert when it comes to finding snug, out-of-the-way quarters," he commented, searching the camp and the immediate surroundings with a careful and, ostensibly, an appreciative eye.

Ostensibly starting in the direction of the upper Laurel Creek country he doubled back, as soon as he was out of sight of camp, and took the trail leading down to Clear Creek canyon.

Within doors an eye may be on her, so she slips out to the wood-stack in the yard, ostensibly to fetch a log for the fire, and indulges in a few moments of flirtation behind the shelter of the faggots.

Presents were also given to those who had preserved their virtue; but the result of these efforts is thus summed up by Turner (91): "Chastity was ostensibly cultivated by both sexes; but it was more a name than a reality.

I took the sheet with one hand and while ostensibly scanning the written page, with the other hand I carefully adjusted my little mirror, on which my downcast and watchful eyes were fixed, when lo!

Ostensibly, always now, whatever new she did was a step toward saving her soul.

Numerous other stories concerning shepherds or villani might be cited, from Boccaccio to Bandello, the point of which, whether openly licentious or ostensibly moral, is brought home with a brutal and physical directness utterly foreign to the spirit of the regular pastoral.

To hang our head ostensibly, And subsequent to find That such was not the posture Of our immortal mind, Affords the sly presumption That, in so dense a fuzz, You, too, take cobweb attitudes Upon a plane of gauze!

Ostensibly the book was an attack on the Roman Catholic Church, but the attack was so cleverly veiled that it included in its criticisms the Church of England also; and must take its place among the works of the deistical writers of the time who aimed at subverting the foundations of the relationships between the Church and the State.

In the company of a lady friendand also of her husband, now scared and penitent, but fearing to let her out of his sightshe drove to a neighbouring convent, ostensibly to inspect the nuns' needlework.