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Example sentences for "peacefully"

Lexicographically close words:
peaceableness; peaceablie; peaceably; peaceful; peacefull; peacefulness; peacekeepers; peacekeeping; peacemaker; peacemakers
  1. Only order thine advisers to decide whether we ought to fight for or peacefully court the beautiful princess.

  2. Who among you will go to fight for the princess, or who will be shrewd enough to bring her peacefully here?

  3. Pleasant is it to have the gift to proceed peacefully and powerfully in your course without alarming by one eccentric movement.

  4. No, there was no doubt about it, the waning moon cast her pure and silvery beams calmly and peacefully upon a silent scene.

  5. Holland and Holland paradox, half of which is peacefully reposing under some scrub, while the other half is at the bottom of a mud-hole.

  6. Even when he did become aware of it he brushed it aside from his mind and went peacefully on, reconciling the doctrine of evolution with the second chapter of Genesis.

  7. In the old room we sat and peacefully smoked our pipes.

  8. And soon we will go together out to the old place and peacefully smoke our pipes up under the rafters.

  9. Gerard at the close of the war with Japan, the United States has now peacefully secured with the apparent good-will of the Chinese Government.

  10. Our influence, so far as it may be legitimately and peacefully exerted, will be used to prevent such demands or pretensions, should there be serious reason to apprehend that they will be put forth.

  11. By the treaties of July and October, 1844, the United States peacefully reaped the advantages which England had obtained at the cost of war.

  12. Since they had driven him to it, he would be a bully and a braggart long enough for them to respect him and allow him to live peacefully ever afterward.

  13. X Batiste lost all hope of living peacefully on his land.

  14. Men will not continue to live peacefully together in huge cities under conditions that are intolerable to any sensitive mind, both among those who profit, and those who suffer by them.

  15. The face is sweet and womanly; the expression peacefully happy.

  16. The Avon gleamed peacefully between the borders tilled by men who never talk, and most of whom have never heard, of the brave Leicester who fought his last battle where they swing their scythes.

  17. It was enough for us to know that the worn body of Legh Richmond’s “Elizabeth” lay there peacefully sleeping away the ages.

  18. Thereupon the Sirdar, relieved of the necessity of forcing the passage, transported his army peacefully to the other bank.

  19. The column retired to rest peacefully during the night of the 21st, although within twelve miles of Gedaref.

  20. She must have been deaf, for she continued peacefully on her way until the awful moment when, struck by the horse's chest as by a locomotive under full steam, she rolled ten paces off, turning three somersaults on the way.

  21. You will return peacefully to your homes, and the secret will disappear with you.

  22. His neighbor was sleeping peacefully on the grass.

  23. When day broke, however, I thought that I was cured, and slept peacefully till noon.

  24. There two sentries had met and were talking peacefully in the moonlight, which, unfortunately for us, now illuminated the road to safety.

  25. Can she rightly and peacefully enjoy that which has been unjustly obtained, or more or less greedily seized by her?

  26. With this dark suggestion, he took leave of Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins and their daughter Phoebe the next day, not without some natural human emotion, and peacefully drove his team and wagon into the settlement of Fair Plains.

  27. The leader burst into a loud laugh, which was echoed by the others, and, with waving hats, the whole party swept peacefully out through the gate.

  28. In a few moments it appeared again, trotting peacefully behind its former pursuer.

  29. Santiago appeared to be sleeping peacefully and looked for all the world like some small New England city which is locked up every night at 8.

  30. Before Lieutenant Young could recover from his astonishment at the new method of getting out of guard duty, the private had gone to his own quarters where he slept peacefully for the remainder of the night.

  31. Peacefully among high beech trees lay the silent hill, the valley of the Neckar which wound its silvery way between the blue mountains could be seen to a great distance.

  32. The moon now appeared from behind the Koenigstuhl; peacefully glinted its light through the trees, and shed pure rays on the path beneath.

  33. Evenly proportioned between Ave Maria and Salve Regina, their days had peacefully succeeded one another.

  34. His thoughts were vague, unformed, still and serene as the water flowing peacefully over the plain.

  35. The dust sank back peacefully in golden particles, and with the deepening silence there came a sense of relief, of healing.

  36. Peacefully they behold life's sun decline, and peacefully in turn they take possession of the narrow beds awaiting them in the near cemetery, where so many soldiers are sleeping the unheeded years away.

  37. Desmahis returned to his room, where he slept soundly and peacefully till daybreak.

  38. Having so said, the Père Longuemare knelt down on the floor, and after repeating his prayers, stretched himself on his palliasse and fell peacefully asleep.

  39. But Olaf had made no half-way business of his financial ambitions, and the former members who now were melting peacefully and rather contentedly into the general American life found themselves saddled with his obligations.

  40. There they are at home and, in default of the kingdoms of which they have been dispossessed, reign peacefully in the salons of the faithful.

  41. The eternal rocking-chair is, of course there, and on the center-table the latest Ladies' Home Companion rests peacefully side by side with the latest Saturday Evening Post.

  42. We had to go well upstream to find a place where we could enjoy our picnic peacefully and without onlookers.

  43. Finally we arrived at Bebek, with its pretty little public garden, its tiny harbour where small yachts and skiffs are peacefully lying covered with tarpaulin for their winter sleep.

  44. Very early the next morning he was informed by a telegraph operator that the count had been peacefully completed, and that Senator Ferry, the President pro tem.

  45. Soon afterward he murmured, "I have endeavored to do my duty," and peacefully breathed his last.


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