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Example sentences for "plain terms"

  • In plain terms, it sounds to this day incredibly foolish,—when read apart from the mutilated text which alone suggested it to Origen’s fervid imagination.

  • This is for all: I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth Have you so slander any moment leisure As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.

  • The man of God declares the truth in plain terms, "No one is a Christian except he is born of God by the anointing of the Holy One.

  • Yes, in plain terms, she said so," rejoined Ashwoode.

  • My lord, in plain terms, for ten thousand reasons I desire your death, and will not leave this place till I have striven to effect it.

  • In plain terms, then, you believe that the devil was in the room; is that it?

  • Nevertheless, even though he was in the power of Love, he did not suffer his firmness to falter, thanks to his being conversant with the Law by long and good practice, and refused that offer in plain terms.

  • Nevertheless, if you maintain that false doctrine--is it not prescribed in the books of your sect in plain terms?

  • In the Pâli Gâtaka, Sakka invites the king to it in plain terms.

  • When the Emperor renewed his assurance to him, he demanded of him in plain terms to advance his then victorious troops to Rome, and put down by main force any resistance to the choice proposed.

  • Campeggi was however far from drawing such a conclusion; he advised her in plain terms to make a vow and enter a convent, repeating the motives stated before, to which he now added the example of a Queen of France.

  • It is vain to say that this measure is temporary; for, in plain terms, it undertakes to amend the charter of Washington.

  • Such, in plain terms, is the surrender proposed.

  • A mint, in plain terms, is nothing but a foundry provided with good locks and keys.

  • In plain terms, it was a final determination on our part not to fulfil the treaties.

  • That is to say, in plain terms, ye are for withdrawing your caution with the folk of the house?

  • Weel, you shall have it in plain terms, for I am a plain man.

  • I, in plain terms, remind thee of certain mad pranks?

  • The deputies of Zealand opposed this measure of sending their troops to stich a distance so strenuously, that the duke was obliged to tell them in plain terms he had received orders to march thither with the British forces.

  • My complaint against Major Namby is, in plain terms, that he transacts the whole of his domestic business in his front garden.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    deliverance from; guard action; high voice; large hole; pearl necklace; plain boiled; plain chant; plain clothes; plain enough; plain knitting; plain omelet; plain sewing; plain speaking; plain stitches; plain terms; plain that; plain truth; plain water; plain white; plain words; plainly enough; rights movement; said shortly; small parties; swift glance; true enough