481 examples of sensibly in sentences

So he very sensibly turned his back on Lake Champlain until the following year.

The situation of the exchange since the War has not sensibly bettered even for the great countries, and it is extraordinarily worse for the other countries.

Lancelot had received from him one short and hurried note, blotted with tears, which told how he had informed his father; and how his father had refused to see him, and had forbid him the house; and how he had offered him an allowance of fifty pounds a year (it should have been five hundred, he said, if he had possessed it), which Luke's director, sensibly enough, had compelled him to accept. . . .

But I was not indifferent to exclusion from Parliament, and public life: and I felt very sensibly the more immediate unpleasantness of confinement to London; the holiday allowed by India House practice not exceeding a month in the year, while my taste was strong for a country life, and my sojourn in France had left behind it an ardent desire of travelling.

People shook their heads, but by the time of the first snowstorm they had ceased to prophesy nervous prostration, and by the time sleighing was fairly established they were ready to admit that the girl had acted sensibly after all.

You will not wonder, that Miss Horton, as well as I, was greatly moved at the representation, when I tell you, and have some pleasure in telling you, that Mr. Lovelace himself was very sensibly touched with some of the most affecting scenes.

As he entered the house, he was sensibly affected by the expression still lingering of the yesterday's grief.

The lady had a very quiet healthy face and smooth brown hair, and was simply and sensibly dressed.

Nothing occurred, for several hours, except that the gale increased sensibly in violence.

Consider also, whether you can think analytically of any form of government, any civil law, any moral virtue, or any spiritual truth, unless the Divine flows in from his wisdom through the spiritual world: for my own part, I never did, and still feel it to be impossible; for I have perceptibly and sensibly observed such influx now (1768) for twenty-five years continually: I therefore speak this from experience.

Good could not be the origin of evil, because evil is nothing of good, being privative and destructive of good; nevertheless, since it exists and is sensibly felt, it is not nothing, but something; tell us therefore whence this something existed after nothing."

and who cannot see, that into some love are collected all the blessednesses, satisfactions, and delights, which can possibly be conferred by the Lord, and that the receptacle thereof is love truly conjugial, which is capable of receiving and perceiving them fully and sensibly?"

An experience, which no length of time will ever efface out of my memory, has so sensibly taught me how difficult it is fully to support the Christian character here, that I hope my reader will pardon me (I am sure, at least, the heart of wounded parents will,) if I dwell a little longer upon so interesting a subject.

They used to be here in thousands, but since the opening of the Transcaspian railway some years ago now, the number of these humped beasts of burden has sensibly diminished.

"I should forget it if I were you," she said sensibly.

What shall I do?" "Lie down!" said Juliet sensibly, releasing herself to settle the tumbled bedclothes.

She felt the burden loosen and fall from her shoulders, so sensibly, that involuntarily, she turned and looked for it on the floor.

22 is by Colonel Yule, C.B.; it is simpler than the others, and he has found it to become sensibly weaker in later years; it is now faint and hard to fix.

TO SAMUEL ROGERS, ESQ. (1829) Rogers, of all the men that I have known But slightly, who have died, your Brother's loss Touch'd me most sensibly.

Sometimes his judgments are sensibly in advance of his age.

And why not?" "That was putting it sensibly of course, but it would have sounded much better if you had expressed yourself entirely upon moral grounds.

The stove was sensibly set up in this passage.

Such invitations, though they neither prompted the extension of the Osmanli realm into Europe nor sensibly precipitated it, did nevertheless divert the course of the Ottoman arms and reprieve the Greek empire till Timur and his Tartars could come on the scene and, all unconsciously, secure it a further respite.

The conception of dramatic art which was in men's minds at the time naturally and inevitably influenced the development of a form of poem which was daily becoming more sensibly dramatic.

I'll paint henceforward with the aid of a microscope, and never again look at nature unless through the wrong end of a telescope!" "Pshaw!be in earnest, man, and talk sensibly!

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