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Example sentences for "originally"

Lexicographically close words:
origin; original; originale; originality; originall; originals; originate; originated; originates; originating
  1. Its surface was originally covered with Maple, Birch, and hard Pine-trees, while the low lands on either side are covered with a dense growth of Cedars.

  2. Although Penobscot is now the name of the entire river, it was originally the name of only a section of the main channel, from the head of tide-water to a short distance above Oldtown.

  3. Originally designed for the mere purposes of look-outs, these airy edifices have degenerated into appliances of superstition to attract good influences and to ward off evil.

  4. She had originally proposed going so early as the spring of 1561, but it was late in July before she left Paris; and as she lingered on the way, first at St Germains, and afterwards at Calais, August was well advanced before she set sail.

  5. This picture originally belonged to Lord Robert Stuart, Earl of Orkney, one of Mary's natural brothers, and is now in the possession of William Trail, Esq.

  6. This charming story of the life on the Wabash, which originally appeared as a serial in WIDE AWAKE, will be read by boys and girls with equal pleasure, for the action of the story is pretty well divided between the two.

  7. One of them is that the family was originally from Wales.

  8. As stated in his introduction, it appeared originally in Old and New, a magazine already extinct when that introduction was penned.

  9. There are two coves: Prussia Cove, originally named Porth Leah, and Bessie's Cove, separated from one another only by a projecting reef.

  10. St. Buriana, the patron saint, was originally Bruinech, daughter of an Irish chieftain, who adopted the religious life.

  11. Those who originally named Black Head, beyond Coverack, could scarce have had any choice in the matter, for it is a lowering, sullen-looking point.

  12. The chapel, although originally of Perpendicular architecture, was so altered in the "restoration" of 1826 that it is now merely a melancholy example of what was in those days considered to be Gothic.

  13. But Cornwall being the Cornwall of legends, it was known perfectly well that satanic agency and not natural forces originally produced Looe Bar.

  14. That meant, 'My turning aside to you originally was the blameable thing.

  15. He insisted, however, on paying the legal costs and an indemnity for the collision at sea; and Temple was in great distress about it, he having originally suggested the suspicion of his men to Captain Welsh.

  16. Well it was for Triplanetary that day that its super-ship carried ample supplies of allotropic iron; well it was that her originally Gargantuan converters and generators had been doubled and quadrupled in power on the long Nevian way!

  17. As I get it, the Nevian cities were originally built in very shallow water, or perhaps were upon islands.

  18. Cropping his rifle, he wheels his trained horse and drawing a pistol from his belt he charges the enemy among whom Kilbuck and the stranger are dealing death-blows.

  19. Snatching a nap now and then, every other available moment was given to her patients.

  20. With men of his profession action follows thought as the bolt follows the flash.

  21. Pressing on in a northwesterly direction they passed through a series of deep valleys and gorges where the only water they could find was brackish and bitter, and reached the edge of the California desert.

  22. And this she did in full view of the fact that she must necessarily perish by remaining behind.

  23. The skin of those specimens originally injected with formalin was slit in several places and they were transferred to crocks containing embalming fluid (without the formalin).

  24. On digit II the originally medial tendon passes underneath and then lateral to the other tendon and attaches to the ungual phalanx; the other tendon attaches to the proximal end of the second phalanx.

  25. He will hear that originally Zionville was the offspring of a gold mine.

  26. It appears to me that the whole of the extreme eastern Khorassan originally was a bed of stones or boulders, overlying a formation of pure sand, and that its irregular surface is due to the subsequent upheavement of the foundation ridges.

  27. Tea from Bokhara is procurable in small quantities; its quality is decent: it was originally eight rupees a seer but is now thirty.

  28. It is, I think, doubtful whether this as well as some other species of the genus are not to be considered as genuine parasites, at any rate they generally cause the destruction of the tree on which they originally grew.

  29. Paddy is the principal grain cultivated, and this is carried on in low places, which appear on a casual examination to have been originally beds of rivers.

  30. They were doubtless originally a mixture of European and Tartar races driven by persecution to the hills, to which they are still perhaps restricted by the cause which led to their original isolation.

  31. The edge of the table land I take to have been originally at Mahadeb.

  32. It was originally applied--a thousand years ago or more--to the younger monks of a monastery, who did most of the farm work on the land belonging to the religious community.

  33. I may here observe, the only error it appears I committed originally was in not prosecuting the magistrates for vindictive damages before the supreme court.

  34. This is a fairly good amount considering that the salmon were originally eighteen- or twenty-pound fish.

  35. So, in the midst of this wilderness, I drank my tea from a fine mustache cup, originally designed to make the recipient "Remember Me.

  36. It was originally much larger and higher but the outer layers of stone were torn down and carried away to Cairo to build mosques and palaces.

  37. The space was originally very long and wide, but that great Mosque of Ahmed and other buildings now occupy a large portion of the old circus grounds.

  38. It was not originally in a hole," explained the guide, "but was built on level ground.

  39. This tablet, discovered at Jerusalem in the year 1871, originally stood in the Temple enclosure to mark the limit which Gentiles were not allowed to pass.

  40. There were originally two large obelisks here in front of the temple, but one of them was taken to Paris a number of years ago.

  41. It was originally erected in the Temple of the Sun in Egypt in 1600 B.

  42. It is, indeed, in the highest degree likely that language is an instrument originally put to uses lower than the conceptual plane and that thought arises as a refined interpretation of its content.

  43. The corresponding material used by the Chinese for the manufacture of porcelain bears a name which is really that of the place from whence it was originally obtained; the term Kao-ling indicates merely a high ridge.

  44. Yet they are very different in many respects from the material originally imported from China.

  45. His clothes, originally of strong material, were patched; he held in his hand a fur cap without a visor; and a rifle leaned on the bench at his side.

  46. He took Mr. Belcher's cast-off clothes, and had them reduced in their dimensions for his own wearing, and was thus always able to be nearly as well dressed and foppish as the man for whom they were originally made.

  47. When that gentleman came in, he found that Talbot had bought the house for ten thousand dollars less than the price originally demanded.

  48. That I am the legal assignee of all the patents originally issued to Paul Benedict, which I have used and am now using.

  49. Jim once more had in possession the old friend whose cheerfulness and good-nature had originally won his affection; and the late autumn and winter which lay before them seemed full of hopeful and happy enterprise.

  50. The chief divisions were the Cocomes, Tutul Xius, Itzas, and Cheles, which seem to have been originally the designations of royal or priestly families, rather than tribal names proper of the peoples over whom they held sway.

  51. Whether this Nahua culture was that originally possessed by them or was introduced at a comparatively late period through the influence of the Teo-Chichimecs, with whom they became largely consolidated, is uncertain.

  52. Originally implanted is the germ of intelligence, at the first but little more than brute instinct.

  53. They were originally introduced from the Malay islands.

  54. It appears originally to have been a slaty sedimentary limestone, but its present condition indicates that it has been altered, and has become partially crystalline--probably from the proximity of volcanic rocks.

  55. The carbonic acid, originally contained in the water, had mainly escaped before it was subjected to analysis; and it was not, therefore, taken into consideration.

  56. In 1612 his great grandson, Ludovico, erected a still nobler one, and removed the ashes of his ancestor from the tomb of Agostino, as the latter had done from the one in which they were originally deposited.

  57. A career was originally the ground for a race, or, especially, for a knight's charge in tournament or battle; whence career was early applied to the charge itself.

  58. A speaker may amplify a discourse by a fuller treatment throughout than was originally planned, or he may append or subjoin certain remarks without change of what has gone before.

  59. Triumph, originally denoting the public rejoicing in honor of a victory, has come to signify also a peculiarly exultant, complete, and glorious victory.

  60. Combat, originally a hostile encounter between individuals, is now used also for extensive engagements.

  61. To what was abomination originally applied?

  62. Since, originally denoting succession in time, signifies a succession in a chain of reasoning, a natural inference or result.

  63. Written characters may be faint or dim, either because originally written with poor ink, or because they have become faded by time and exposure.

  64. Allot, originally to assign by lot, applies to the giving of a definite thing to a certain person.


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