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Example sentences for "marvellously"

Lexicographically close words:
marveled; marveling; marvelled; marvelling; marvellous; marvelous; marvelously; marvels; maryage; maryed
  1. I have seen a good many people, and all have been so marvellously kind; not the least so the family of Dr.

  2. My life is changed indeed: to be wanted continually, to be constantly called for and occupied seems so strange; yet it is a marvellously good thing.

  3. Wuthering Heights it appears is selling too, and consequently Mr. Newby is getting into marvellously good tune with his authors.

  4. Personal contact produced estimates which, though they might be harsh, hasty, and unfair, were always interesting, and sometimes marvellously accurate.

  5. If so, he was one of the most marvellously successful men that ever lived.

  6. It was marvellously beautiful; it was ordinary; it was marvellously beautiful.

  7. He thought she was marvellously beautiful--and very young, far younger than himself.

  8. And even George, with the unmerciful, ruthless judgment of his years, was obliged to admit that she possessed a genuine pertinacity and had marvellously accomplished an ambition.

  9. But the Crusaders, taught by experience, had become marvellously vigilant, and showed a decided aversion to be captured.

  10. Nothing less,' replied Guy, 'than that these foul Saracens have been marvellously near us.

  11. The coming event threw its shadow before it, and the shadow became marvellously distorted.

  12. The deep fork in his tail enables him to steer {100} himself with those marvellously quick, erratic turns, which make his course through the air resemble forked lightning.

  13. Beach birds become marvellously quick in reckoning the fraction of a second when they must run from under the combing wave about to break over their little heads.

  14. She seemed marvellously frightened, and whispered thanks, privately, for her delivery.

  15. Your weakness, sir, acts marvellously wisely: you'll be the clean-shaved Nestor of the regiment.

  16. What a marvellously complex weapon is the 'sting' of the bee!

  17. A marvellously perfect example of Martial art and science is furnished by the Observatory of the Astronomic Academy, on a mountain about twenty miles from the Residence.

  18. All these crops are raised with marvellously little human labour, the whole work of ploughing and sowing being done by machinery, that of weeding and harvesting chiefly by the carvee.

  19. The varied colours of their plumage, combined and intermingled in marvellously minute patterns, are all of those subdued or dead tints agreeable to the taste of Japanese artists, and perhaps to no other.

  20. Solve, in a tone that marvellously resembled the tones of modern men in similar circumstances.

  21. She had obtained the recipe from her husband himself, and had become marvellously deft at it, so he said.

  22. But, all at once, he came across a copy that Chaine had made at the Louvre, a Mantegna, which was marvellously exact in its dryness.

  23. Though rigorous towards himself he was marvellously indulgent towards those whom he governed in the monastery.

  24. Against the dark setting of olive weed her moist skin glistened marvellously white in the sun.

  25. Except that his hands were like to freeze out of use Christian cared marvellously little for outer miseries.

  26. Larkin, with one of his 'young men' with him in the tax-cart, reached Brandon Hall in a marvellously short time after his arrival at home.

  27. This sort of inflexible merry-making in nature seems marvellously selfish in the eyes of anxious Captain Lake.

  28. There could be no doubt as to a general resemblance; but, though marvellously preserved, in its then state, certainty was hardly attainable.

  29. The air was mildly heated by an autumnal sun shining in a marvellously blue sky.

  30. If a child is lost, all the precincts are furnished immediately with an accurate description of it, and the whole force is on the lookout for the little wanderer, and in a marvellously quick time it is restored to its mother's arms.

  31. Many wires are used instead of one, and much greater power is of course employed than at first, but the marvellously simple principle is the same that was used in the garden at Bologna.

  32. Each man wore a cork jacket, but in spite of their encumbrances they were marvellously active.

  33. For she hath gotten this coronation marvellously into her head.

  34. Elizabeth tried to frown, but smiled in her own despite, as she answered, "Thou art a marvellously impudent knave.

  35. He is a marvellously sharp-witted spirit.

  36. II Many people in turning over a collection of Dürer's drawings would be constantly crying, "How marvellously realistic!

  37. At that rate twenty-five hundred dollars will not go so very far, and in this day of lingerie marvellously embellished with handwork and real lace, prices mount to surprising heights.

  38. Men of all types and from all quarters of the globe lean to look into the eyes of women marvellously gowned, magnificently jewelled, flushed under the influence of music and wine and admiration and conscious power.

  39. When I add that the head of the house, Vespasian Colonna, had offered the hospitalities of his palace to the Marchesa Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, it will be understood how marvellously this lady's visit to Rome fell in with my schemes.

  40. I was a witness to them, for at this time by twisting my sheets into a rope I had most marvellously escaped from the battlements of St. Angelo.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marvellously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.