We feel such deep pity for the fallen that there must needs be a justice in it, for these diviner feelings are wiser in themselves and do not vaguely arise.
Association of ideas will in some subtle way bring us back to the Phidian demigods when we look at forms and draperies vaguely suggestive of the Parthenon.
By darkened images we may figure something vaguely akin, as when in rare moments under the stars the big dreamy heart of childhood is pervaded with quiet and brimmed full with love.
She looked up and away at the north star and wondered vaguely about Florence's grandfather, Tom Kennedy, way up there almost beneath that star.
It was dark under the trees, but he could make out the figure of a woman sitting by the tree where he had placed the rifle, and a second figure, vaguely white, standing at the edge of the bank against a fir trunk.
The Marchesa recalled vaguely some mention of this incident in a continental paper at the time.
The Duke of Dorset vaguely understood then that the man was some sort of little farmer and some sort of priest, come hither on some imagined mission.
The Duke of Dorset, dozing into sleep, wondered vaguely what portion of the Hebrew Scriptures this strange, gentle person read.
He wondered vaguely what it was that had led him over four thousand miles of sea, across a continent to this place.
Every one, for example, is vaguely conscious that science played a great part in the War.
These facts the slow-moving brain of Hughie Marrable absorbed one by one, and he felt vaguely unhappy on the girl's account, though he could not find it in his heart to blame her.
Hughie duly departed to town, promising faithfully to come back for the theatricals, and wondering vaguely why Joan had insisted so strongly on his doing so.
For Cynthia was vaguely troubled at having found one discontent.
Cynthia had been very polite, but there was something in the quiet manner in which the girl's eyes were fixed upon him that made him vaguely uneasy.
In short, those who made it a custom to observe such matters felt vaguely a disturbance of some kind.
In the early part of the period variations from the original are only vaguely implied and become evident only when the reader can place the English beside the French or Latin.
With more simplicity and less display of learning, the translator of religious works sometimes vaguely adduces authority, as did the translator of romances, in connection with an unfamiliar name.
While engaged in attempting to do so, the whole landscape seemed to quiver vaguely under my fading eyes.
As she reached her own door, a voice vaguely familiar called her name.
His name was in the class of those vaguely familiar: vaguely familiar, too, was his face.
He understood now why it was that Camilla had written him vaguely of an urgent matter about which she could not write, requesting permission to come West at once.
She waved the blossom vaguely in the direction of the drawing room.
In dance after dance they vaguely embodied the story of life, its meetings, its passions, its partings.
From high black walls, gleamingvaguely with rain, Each yellow light looked down like a golden eye.
The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.
The voice from the house fades far away, The glistening leaves more vaguely ripple and sway .
And we recall, with a gleaming stab of sadness, Vaguely and incoherently, some dream Of a world we came from, a world of sun-blue hills .
Recurring waves of sound break vaguely about them, They drift from wall to wall, from tree to tree.
There, like one who gazes into a crystal, He broods upon our city with sombre eyes; He sees our secret fears vaguely unfolding, Sees cloudy symbols shape to rise.
Ludwig von Hohnel, who discovered the large Basso Norok, now known as Lake Rudolf, till then only vaguely indicated on the map as Samburu.
In general the abyss is regarded vaguely as a place of indefinite extent, the abode of mystery and sorrow.
Among all races in a certain grade of development such associations are vaguely felt to be dangerous and to impair vitality.
Our everydav aesthetic judgments are wont to leave the attributes thus vaguely referred to the concrete object.
He guessed now that the woman whom he had vaguely seen was she whose part in the mystery of the house in Grosvenor Gardens had always been shadowy and vague.
He wondered vaguely what he ought to do, and decided to consult Brown--Brown being the senior member of his firm of family solicitors.
With a natural curiosity he had drifted into Walfisch Bay, bitten as it were out of the huge expanse of German South-West Africa, vaguely expecting something out of the ordinary from such a queer locality.
As he drove there he remembered vaguely several little things that he had noticed subconsciously before, and he began to think that probably Woodville and Sylvia were in love with each other.
I vaguely knew Tregelly was more or less married: he was at Oxford with Chetwode; but as they live so far away I've never got to know them.
Sylvia had that curious gift, abstract beauty, the sort of beauty that recalls vaguely some ideal or antique memory.
And at the best, how indefinite and unsatisfactory, only to know so vaguely what they are!
It was not until he had seen him for some time that he began to identify him; but he had from the first vaguely associated him with me, and known him as somehow belonging to me in the old village time.
As we neared home, Joe vaguely acknowledging the occasion as an impressive and ceremonious one, went on ahead to open the front door.
But Symes was never at a loss for something to promote, for there was always a nebula of schemes vaguely present in his prolific brain.
The sharper moans of Billy Duncan, whose inflamed and swollen arm was wringing from him ejaculations of pain, recalled vaguely to her mind something of the incident of the night before.
It would be a relief to exchange a word with some one, she thought, and wondered vaguely at the swiftness of the gait upon so hot a day.
Brigit knew practically nothing of Arabic; and Monny, though she had been vaguely studying since her arrival, had been too passionately occupied with other things to give much time or attention to the language of Egypt's invaders.
As Mrs. East had disappeared, I vaguely associated the puzzle of our missing craft with Sir Marcus; and anyhow, curiosity wasn't the strongest emotion in my being just then.
As we passed into the cavernous hall of roughly carved Osiride columns, the huge figures attached to them loomed vaguely out of purple gloom.
Monny seemed to be more or less in the arms of Antoun, but only vaguely and by accident.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vaguely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aimlessly; broadly; generally; indefinitely; vaguely
