2925 examples of precisely in sentences

This is precisely what has been going on in America since she went adrift.

And it is precisely this that makes the greatness of the resolution adopted by the North.

It seems to me that the Turks have room before them, and that the Middle Ages were not suffering precisely from an excess of population when they presented everywhere the spectacle of anarchy and oppression.

Precisely what must have happened, the human heart being such as it is.

When Anglo-Saxons are in question, we Latins are apt to deceive ourselves terribly; one would not risk much, perhaps, in supposing that events would take place precisely in the reverse of our hypothesis.

I fear much that, in their place, we would do precisely as they.

All this was precisely what Bismarck wanted.

" Precisely: and this is the destiny that has overtaken not only the pagan philosophy of which Hugh of St. Victor was speaking, but also that which followed after St. Thomas Aquinas, from Descartes to Hobbes and Kant and Comte and Herbert Spencer and William James.

This was precisely what the silk merchant had hoped, and he accepted with an alacrity that he intended to be tempered by graciousness.

" His words had the effect precisely of a bombshell.

"It was simply this," he resumed with a sudden rush of words, "that, accidentally, as the result of my years of experiment, I one day slipped bodily into the next world, the world of four dimensions, yet without knowing precisely how I got there, or how I could get back again.

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This may seem a somewhat fantastic supposition, yet it was precisely in this way and on grounds like these that the Holy Alliance interfered with the internal affairs of European countries during the second and third decade of last century, and even as late as 1849 we have Russia, still faithful to the principles of thirty years before, coming to the assistance of Austria in her suppression of the liberties of Hungary.

For while he wants some one who shall be different from himself, and wants him just because he is different, for the sake of society and fresh influence, he nevertheless demands that this other individual shall precisely resemble the imaginary creature who accords with his mood, and have no thoughts but those which he has himself.

Until she was seventeen, she was precisely like any other rather stupid girl; never given to novel-reading or fancies; never, frightened by the dark or ghost-stories; proving herself warmly attached to us, after a while, and rousing in us, in return, the kindly interest naturally felt for a faithful servant; but she was not in any respect uncommon, quite far from it,except in the circumstance that she never told a false-hood.

The books were of precisely the same size, color, and texture.

It was precisely what Creston expected, and just like the Dugalds for all the worldgone to hunt up material for that genealogical book, or map, or tree, or something, that they thought nobody knew they were going to publish.

There is the story of the enterprising mouse, who, at one o'clock precisely, ran down the clock to the cabalistic tune of "Dickory, dickory, dock."

Margaret thought this very nice of him; it was a delicate tribute to her that he ate nothing; and the fact that Hugh Van Orden and Petheridge Jukesburyas she believedacted in precisely the same way for precisely the same reason, merely demonstrated, of course, their overwhelming conceit and presumption.

Margaret thought this very nice of him; it was a delicate tribute to her that he ate nothing; and the fact that Hugh Van Orden and Petheridge Jukesburyas she believedacted in precisely the same way for precisely the same reason, merely demonstrated, of course, their overwhelming conceit and presumption.

He knew, and he could have said, precisely what he was thinking about.

At almost precisely the same time Jimsy's fist happened to collide with the point of the jaw of the fallen battler's father.

Precisely the same differentiation occurred, as I shall show, in Mexico, in the case of Quetzalcoatl, as shown in his Yoel, or Wheel of the Winds, which was his sacred pentagram.

After Mr. B. had finished his remarks, Mr. S. Shands, member of assembly, and a wealthy proprietor, observed that he entertained precisely the same views with those just expressed; but he thought that the honorable gentleman had been unwise in uttering them in so public a manner; "for," said he, "should these sentiments reach the ear of parliament, as coming from us, it might induce them to withhold the compensation.

We have not yet determined precisely where it will strike, but we are forwarding the data to SE and that will be determined.

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