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Example sentences for "well"

Lexicographically close words:
weled; welfare; welke; welked; welkin; wellbeing; wellbeloved; welle; welled; wellfare
  1. Wodehouse was writing pretty well in his early 90s.

  2. At other times, of course, Lepke was not so well behaved.

  3. My main interest is to see that the company itself does well and makes as much money as possible.

  4. The Peerces, who have two daughters and a son, maintain a house in New Rochelle as well as the Westside apartment that they have had for the past 15 years.

  5. I've gotten the most angry letters from people saying, 'Well my God, can't you at least have the understudy shave his head?

  6. He decided that science fiction was doing well and that he wanted a science fiction magazine -- something with the name of someone, like Ellery Queen.

  7. One of the great tragedies of the restaurant business is that people who cook well at home often think that's all it takes.

  8. Specializing in portraits of artists, he studies the work of each subject intensely beforehand so that the essence of the artist will be distilled into the photograph, by subconscious as well as conscious effort.

  9. For his performance, Sammy won the Outer Circle Critic's Award for Best New Talent on Broadway, as well as a Theatre World Award.

  10. By using scientific methods, I can absolutely refute the ideas of those who say that Oklahoma doesn't matter, or that the Pygmies might as well be exterminated.

  11. But it's not going to be easy, because there are these well financed right-wing campaigns trying to block it.

  12. It was a hit in London, and the preview performances were doing well enough in New York to call for an official Broadway opening.

  13. We do not expect to elect you, and we are well aware that your nomination would expose you to pro-slavery ridicule and hatred.

  14. Upon the college roll during his four years were names afterwards well known in our history.

  15. The Society, no doubt, recognizes the slaves of Georgia as its coloured friends as well as the slaves of the District of Columbia.

  16. The shops would sell her no food; her well was filled with manure, and water from other sources refused; her house was smeared with filth and finally set on fire.

  17. How far that belief was well founded is for others to decide.

  18. Many of us," they said, "were well acquainted with Judge Jay, and can speak from personal knowledge of those high qualities which have given him an historic celebrity.

  19. Well may the Free Democracy of Massachusetts, with their hands and consciences undefiled by oblations on the altar of the American Moloch, now strive to avert the calamity impending over the country.

  20. If you will, you will in so doing render a very great service to our holy cause--a service which I see not how we can well dispense with.

  21. His correspondence was voluminous and extended to the rank and file as well as to the leaders of the antislavery movement.

  22. He'd tumbled to it that the usual way off the moor was pretty well guarded, and he'd doubled back through the thin line of woods close to the house.

  23. Young lady," he said, "you will do well to speak little here.

  24. They've been there pretty well all night, drinking, and they're there again this morning, hard at it.

  25. You can understand now, I dare say, another reason why I am sending Macdougal with you as well as Lenora.

  26. An Irish story of real power, perfect in development and showing a true conception of the spirited Hibernian character as displayed in the tragic as well as the tender phases of life.

  27. She knew quite well that her secret had escaped her.

  28. As to going on, I think we might just as well move tomorrow.

  29. You may be that," the man replied, "but it's just as well for you both to understand this.

  30. Well now, what about your more extended search?

  31. I am well aware that an ordinary jewel robbery does not interest you, but in this case the circumstances are extraordinary.

  32. If I let you go," once more came the man's voice, "I know very well in what chair I shall be sitting before a month has passed.

  33. I guessed pretty well what he'd be up to.

  34. I think it will be as well now, Quest, for this matter to take its obvious course.

  35. They too had become almost non-existent; it having been well established that only the direst emergency would ever call them into being again.

  36. There are times when it is well to drift; and in this case it has proved most satisfactory.

  37. His suspicious eyes turned upon his mother, well versed in poisons, as he knew; and, as he also knew, capable of anything.

  38. As well whisper to the cyclone to level only the tall trees, or to the conflagration to burn only the temples and palaces.

  39. Turenne and Condé were the military heroes of this, as well as of the subsequent foreign wars, resulting in the acquisition of Alsace (1648) and other great territorial expansion.

  40. In the mean time, as the American Revolution moved on toward success, there was talk in the cabin as well as the chateau of the "rights of man.

  41. The Empress Eugénie was beautiful and gracious, and her court at Versailles, Fontainebleau, and the Tuileries compared well in splendor with the traditions of the past.

  42. Francis Joseph wore the double crown created by Charlemagne a thousand years before, and was Emperor of Rome as well as of Germany.

  43. The bill recently passed is aimed not at the Church, but at "Clericalism," a powerful element within the Church, which has been determined to make it a political as well as a spiritual power.

  44. It will be well not to examine too closely the conversion of Clovis to Christianity, any more than that of Constantine to the religion of Christ, or that of Henry VIII.

  45. Ephesians and perhaps that to the Hebrews, as well as the epistle of James; but there is great uncertainty about the matter, for there is no express or certain quotation from any part of the New Testament.

  46. Still a line had to be drawn in the national literature; and it was well drawn on the whole.

  47. New Testament, Clement’s two epistles; and Cosmas Indicopleustes omitted the general epistles as well as the Apocalypse.

  48. Though the historian of the church was not well fitted for the task, being deficient in critical ability and trammeled by tradition, he doubtless used his best judgment.

  49. Paul’s epistles as well as I Peter were used by the writer.

  50. The sanctity attaching to the last division as well as the others did not permit the total displacement of any part.

  51. Considering it to have been taken from 2 Peter, and not well extracted either, he put it lower than the supposed original.

  52. Such was the first canon given to the Jewish Church after its reconstruction—ready for temple service as well as synagogue use.

  53. The scribes who began with Ezra, seeing how he acted, would naturally follow his example, not hesitating to revise the text in substance as well as form.

  54. This was owing, among other causes, to the state of parties among the Jews, as well as the intrusion of Greek literature and culture, whose influence the Palestinian Jews themselves were not able altogether to withstand.

  55. His view of the additions to the books of Daniel and Esther, as well as his opinion about Tobit, are sufficiently expressed in the epistle to Africanus, so that scattered quotations from these parts of Scripture can be properly estimated.

  56. The second century abounded in pseudonymous literature; and the early fathers, as well as the churches, were occupied with other things than the sifting of evidence connected with writings considerably prior to their own time.

  57. So with the papers which would eventually release the Spanish prisoner, and well fitted out for the cruise to Double Island, the party once again set forth on her cruise.

  58. Inez Ralcanto, for such she said was her name, her father being Senor Rafael Ralcanto, was heartbroken and well nigh discouraged at her loss.

  59. We had three boats carried away, as well as part of our port rail.

  60. I shall be glad to purchase some of it, and pay you well for it--I can't get that kind in the stores.

  61. As those of the motor girls are well known to our readers, there is no need to dwell further on them.

  62. Might as well hear the worst with the best.

  63. Whether it would reach him or not was another question, for his political enemies had him pretty well hedged about.

  64. We certainly can, and will, rescue them, and as for the father of Miss Inez--well that is another matter.

  65. Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Kimball, and the girls varied from brown silks to linens, and found them perfectly well suited to the climate.

  66. One last run in our cars, and then well put them away," suggested Cora to her chums.

  67. Might as well turn in, I guess," suggested Jack, with a weary yawn.

  68. The girls, including Inez, donned rubber coats, and, well wrapped up for it was chilling with the advent of rain, they set forth from the hotel.

  69. We can read a guide book as well as you can.

  70. It is like sowing in the depths of winter seeds which would mature just as well if they were sown in March.

  71. But he may well exclaim, "How do you help me?

  72. The youth of this generation will do well to be guided by their example, and follow their road to success.

  73. The true secret of industry well applied is concentration, and there are many well-known ways of learning that art--the most potent handmaiden of success.

  74. It must be a mental habit--a fixed intention to be fair in dealing with money or politics, a natural desire to be just and to interpret all bargains and agreements in the spirit as well as in the letter.

  75. To face these sudden blows which seem to come out of the void, men must have their reserves of character and mentality well in hand.

  76. If they speak well of him, there is nothing much wrong.

  77. The success in one branch might therefore well be the failure in the other, and vice versa.

  78. Indeed, there can be no doubt but that the disease was well established at the time it was first recognized.

  79. In order that these may become apparent without irksome study of military details, let us imagine a command of say a thousand men, fairly well drilled, of good ordinary intelligence and engaged in a cause worthy of being fought for.

  80. Chandler's third catalogue of variable stars gives the periods of 280 of these objects, which seem to have been fairly well made out.

  81. The object of the innumerable taboos that are in force after the killing of these sea animals is therefore to keep their souls free from attachments that would hurt their souls as well as Sedna.

  82. Repeated visitations of this dread disease have taught the natives of Yunnan, as well as those of Gurhwal and of Uganda, to desert their villages as soon as an unusual mortality is found to prevail among the rats.

  83. There was a distinction and a personal quality in what he wrote that made each book or essay a work of art, as well as a contribution to knowledge.

  84. Through the skill of these observers, as well as that of Brunnow and Ball, in applying the equatorial telescope to the same purposes, the parallax of nearly 100 stars has been measured with some approach to precision.

  85. Three-wheel vehicles have been used, but there is a difference of opinion as to their value, as the construction has disadvantages as well as advantages.

  86. It, as well as other cities along the Black Sea, was largely populated by Italians.

  87. Kepler saw that the sun might well be of the nature of a star; in fact, that the stars were probably suns.

  88. With South America more or less thoroughly infected, it is evident that the United States, as well as Europe, are now threatened from all sides.

  89. There was always a village well within the walls, where the women and girls filled their graceful jugs with water every morning.

  90. Donkeys can climb stairs almost as well as men, so they are still used a great deal on this mountainous little island, for there are only two or three roads that horses and carriages can go over.

  91. The builders straightened it up as well as they could, but when it was finished its top leaned to one side nearly fourteen feet.

  92. Some say he was digging a well when he discovered it.

  93. Many of the beautiful paintings on the walls of the houses, as well as lovely marble vases and fountains, are almost as perfect now as when they were buried so many, many years ago.

  94. Rome is now so large it covers all of the seven hills, as well as the land between them," said her father.

  95. And setting to work himself, he was soon followed by one and another, till order and work went on well enough.

  96. The treasure would all be safely hidden, and the town well prepared to meet them.

  97. Leave well alone is a good rule, but leave ill alone is a better.

  98. The two young men knew well whose window that was; and both hearts beat fast; for Rose Salterne slept, or rather seemed to wake, in that chamber.

  99. We have done well enough without her as yet," said Amyas, bluntly.

  100. Senor Don Guzman must be well enough aware of who Richard Grenville is, to know that he may claim the right of refusing duel to any man, if he shall so think fit.

  101. I hope you have been well employed in the meanwhile?

  102. The princess had heard the trumpets and the proclamations, and knew quite well that her ring was at the bottom of it all.

  103. I have just come from a country where it grows so well that one head of cauliflower filled twelve water-tubs.

  104. Even so I see as well as people who have no bandage.

  105. When Toupette was told that she was to see her old lover again, her heart leapt with joy; but soon the recollection came to her of all that had happened, and she remembered that Cornichon would be changed as well as she.

  106. As soon as he had started, the bear came to the queen and implored to be allowed to go to the ball, saying that she would hide herself so well that no one would know she was there.

  107. You will do well to take him into your service, and, I assure you, you will find him worth his salt.

  108. So I pushed my way among the thorns as well as I could, and walked on steadily for about an hour.

  109. It was not till then that he first became aware that he was blind, and he begged the travellers to lead him to the country of the king whose daughter he had freed, and they would be well repaid for their trouble.

  110. It is because I see only too well that I am forced to bandage my eyes.

  111. After some time she gave birth to a most lovely little girl, and when she was well again the fairy gave her a good lecture on her past life, made her promise to behave better in future, and sent her back to the king, her husband.

  112. She took them with her and put them back in Janni's head, so that he saw as well as before.

  113. Then the jackal kicked him out of the way, and went to the well and began to drink, but scarcely had he touched the water, than the tortoise seized him by the leg.

  114. The fairy talked so well and so long that the princess was rather impressed, and promised to think the matter over.

  115. When I think of poor "Shape" and the preacher, both so well when I saw them yesterday evening, I realize that I myself may be dead to-morrow.

  116. A few weeks later Mr. Adams himself came to Stormfield, and, like all open-minded ministers of the Gospel, he found that he could get on very well indeed with Mark Twain.

  117. Keep your head well bundled with a shawl till the latter comes, and so cheat your persecuting neuralgias and rheumatisms.

  118. Twichell said nothing as to any purpose in the matter; but somewhat later, being in New Haven, he stepped into the old book-store and found the same proprietor, who remembered very well the book and its author.

  119. His face was not so well known and his pen-name was carefully concealed.

  120. And again on the 28th: It seems to me that things couldn't well be going better at Chicago than they are.

  121. She had been well for a time at Quarry Farm, well and happy, but during the summer of '96 she had become restless, nervous, and unlike herself in many ways.

  122. The boundless confidence that I have in you is born of a conviction of your integrity in small as well as in great things.

  123. Once, when it seemed to him that matters were not going as well as usual, a visit from Webster showed him that it was because of his own continued absence from the business that he did not understand.

  124. The fact that certain papers quoted the speech and spoke well of it, and certain readers who had not listened to it thought it enormously funny, gave very little comfort.

  125. It may be said, as well here as anywhere, that it was not Mark Twain's habit to strive for humor.

  126. He favoured peace and quiet; and he liked to walk up to the hustings and give his vote, and hear 'em say, "Well done!

  127. It seems to me," I wound up, including the three servants with an indignant sweep of the arm, "that you might well have emulated my delicacy!

  128. That boy, sir, will play the triangle almost as well as a man grown.

  129. Master Simon had fine sport in the short days, and the inn might take care of itself, which it was perfectly well able to do.

  130. And now," the cock said, as they came to a standstill again, "I think you can see a hole in a ladder as well as any man.

  131. Before daylight the boats hoisted sail again, and were well under the Islands and out of sight by breakfast-time.

  132. By this time we were getting pretty well into the way of Self-Government, and all enjoying it amazingly.

  133. It seems a necessary step towards acquainting myself with the inner life of these inchoate millions, which must be well worth knowing.

  134. It was dark out there, you understand: nothing to see by but the lamps of the coach and the light of the doorway; besides which the fellow was pretty well muffled up in a heavy coat and wraps.

  135. I never thought well of this cure from the first," declared Sam.

  136. But all this had to come to an end in the late summer; for the boy, John Christian, being now well and strong again, must go up to Plymouth to report himself.

  137. This, I thought, was reversing the order of things; and I found it doubly disagreeable, as on this as well as subsequent occasions, they seemed to prefer the dirtiest places and the most dismal occupations.

  138. Mary, mamma says I'm to help you; or get you to take a walk with me; she says you may well look thin and dejected, if you sit so constantly in the house.

  139. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

  140. They got on extremely well together--greatly to my satisfaction, for I had felt very anxious about what my mother would think of him.

  141. She was very glad to see me; but, happily, her eyes were now so nearly well that she was almost independent of my services.

  142. We have had trials, and we know that we must have them again; but we bear them well together, and endeavour to fortify ourselves and each other against the final separation--that greatest of all afflictions to the survivor.

  143. And, as it was the first day of our acquaintance, I thought I might as well indulge him.

  144. You can walk about the house well enough; why can't you walk to church?

  145. Yes, of course: the young lady's proficiency and elegance is of more consequence to the governess than her own, as well as to the world.

  146. That ar dog knowed jest as well that I war arter you as I did myself.

  147. The meat was thoroughly cured without smoke or salt, and although the boys did not relish it as well as the bacon, they still found it very palatable.

  148. If ole Kelly could get his hands on us, we'd be used a heap wusser nor robbin', an' you know it well enough.

  149. The trapper, who was now the chief man of the party, had superintended the buying of their outfit, and, although it was a simple one, they were still well provided with every necessary article.

  150. But the latter well understood the matter in hand, and presently the boys saw a puff of smoke rise from the grass, and the nearest of the antelopes, springing into the air, fell dead in his tracks.

  151. The boys were very well satisfied with this arrangement, for their long ride had wearied them, and Archie was willing to brave grizzly bears, so long as he was in Dick's company.

  152. But when these two kings, both so well meaning, had met and exchanged courtesies, and the one had raised the other by the hand to a place on the daïs beside him, already and without speech they had almost accorded.

  153. Cuchet's forty-one volumes most pertinently as well as amply illustrated some real qualities, and those the most amiable of the Ancien Régime.

  154. At sight of her, she was so lovely, you might well have supposed that some bright being of the skies had floated down to earth and there dropped asleep after her long journey.

  155. Beauty saw the wisdom of this and knew very well that her father was counselling her for the best.

  156. Cinderella had quite well expected some such rebuff, and was glad enough to get it, for it would have been very awkward if her sister had been willing to lend the gown.

  157. Well answered,' replied the Beast; 'and since you have come of your own accord, you shall stay.

  158. I cannot explain the cause of this change; but, believe me, my resolution is well taken.

  159. Take a dry, sterile land, and dig a well into it; what happens?

  160. You might as well say right now that I am a burden to you.

  161. That good man is well entitled to his name.

  162. I know your kind heart, my dear boy, as well as your love for me; and my only consolation in our poverty is to know that you do not complain of your condition.

  163. My dear Louis, I know you too well to believe you could have loved a woman unworthy of your affections.

  164. Under the present condition of affairs, my dear countess, I may as well make a clean breast of it," rejoined the duke, with touching abandon.

  165. Social inequality is as well understood among children as it is among their elders.

  166. The day was drawing to a close, when he was finally aroused from his grief by a knock at his door and the well known voice of Florestan de Saint-Herem.

  167. I believe you also approve me for inviting him, as well as many of his colleagues, to the inauguration of their united work?

  168. He was poorly dressed and leaned painfully on his stick; his long beard was white, as well as his hair and bushy eyebrows, and the dark color of his wrinkled face gave him the appearance of a mulatto.

  169. He well knew the wretched position of the two women, and Mariette had often confided to him the trials she was forced to endure through her god-mother's gloomy and harsh character.

  170. I soon saw that, though the first day everything went well enough.

  171. I was quite well in a few hours, but I wouldn't have gone back to more conventional comforts for anything.

  172. It was only a few francs, and as you pay me a good screw, I can well afford it.

  173. Somehow I was never so much struck with this contrast before, though I know this country almost as well as I know my hat.

  174. I positively dared not let Miss Kedison into the secret of what had happened, but I hinted to her that I had had good reason to think less well of Brown even than before.

  175. With imagination you have the glamour of the past and all the wonderful things that have happened in a place, as well as the mere beauty of the present.

  176. The woodwork of the car, the hood and the upper part, as well as the wooden wheels, had all disappeared--the flame had swallowed and digested them.

  177. Though I have only the smallest smattering of Italian, I could understand pretty well what followed.

  178. The plans seem well laid; I cover my tracks carefully; I don't see how detection can come.

  179. It contains an immense amount of condensed information on almost every point connected with the art which it were well for the intelligent music-lover to know.

  180. Oh, he served me well enough--too well," said I.

  181. Well worth buying and owning by all who are interested in musical knowledge.

  182. As I have gradually drifted into the position of Miss Randolph's courier as well as her chauffeur, I can plan these things as I like, for she never glances at her bills, which I settle, giving an account every few days.

  183. Well did Miss Randolph fill the role of injured virtue which she had taken up at such short notice.

  184. But afterwards I drove her (Aunt Mary you may take for granted) out four steep miles to Monreale, and it was well that she had saved a few adjectives.

  185. Both the elder Fernalds and Mr. Hazen rowed well and Ted pulled an exceptionally strong oar for a boy of his years.

  186. Now Mr. Holmes knew Tom Watson well for the young electrician had done a great deal of work for him in the past; moreover, the New York man was a person who kept well abreast of the times and was always alert for novel ideas.

  187. But to always be following the gleam and never overtaking it, ah, that might well have discouraged prophets of stouter heart!

  188. Why, if a thing was not to be used it might almost as well never have been invented!

  189. Why, you might as well throw up the whole job as to only half do it.

  190. The Fernalds, however, soon made it plain that the preference was to be given to their old employees who had served them well and faithfully for so many years.

  191. They tell me you are a good farmer as well as an electrician," Mr. Fernald said.

  192. Farmer, well known in the electrical world, came to view the wonder and confessed to Mr. Bell that more than once he had lingered on the threshold of the same mighty discovery but had never been able to step across it into success.

  193. If you want to go on on these terms, well and good; if not, I wash my hands of the whole affair and you can find somebody else to help you.

  194. Yes, all went well with the plan so far as the Fernalds were concerned; but the Turners--ah, there was the stumbling block!

  195. The doctor says he will soon be well again and after the house has been fumigated you can come back to Pine Lea.

  196. And well you may be, sir," Mr. Turner observed.

  197. Yet each step of the climb to success had its sunlight as well as its shadow, its humor as well as its pathos; and it was fortunate both men appreciated this fact for it floated them over many a rough sea.

  198. The houses all look well enough until one goes inside.

  199. This change of the colour of the wall he well ascribes to the compression of the retina by the diastole of the artery.

  200. In this disease the patients frequently dream of having their eyes painfully dazzled; hence the idea of strong light is painful as well as the reality.

  201. Hence from the structure, as well as the use of the placenta, it appears to be a respiratory organ, like the gills of fish, by which the blood in the fetus becomes oxygenated.

  202. Sound national policy as well as honor forced the decision.

  203. The future historian will doubtless give weight to the above mentioned forces, as well as to many others that can not here be touched upon.

  204. The position of France was in all main regards a defensive one, although she was bound as well by treaty to support Russia.

  205. VII In a new country of vast natural resources, especially if it is not too well governed, there is sufficient scope for both speculative enterprise and capital proper.

  206. I as well as the cat am linked to the past.

  207. Vain to take refuge in plays or books: for what play or book is well known at all unless it deals with the social evil?

  208. It may be well to add, in conclusion, a few words on a broader aspect of the matter.

  209. Otherwise you will not get the romantic mating; and the unromantic mating, once well established in society, will give rise to a perfectly transmissible (whether by heredity or environment, O shade of Mendel!

  210. After every essential thing is done, there remain non-essentials which may as well go one way as the other.

  211. It seems to be pretty well taken for granted that you cannot think for yourself, and decide to think what the majority of your kind thinks.

  212. He referred them to the strongest evidence of his assertions, in the countenance which they gave to a class of officials too well known to the community for the honor of its name and the moral foundation of its corporate dignity.

  213. It was that somebody found one of those little occasional droppings of the aristocracy, very well known among the secrets of the chivalry, and called foundlings, nicely fixed up in a basket.

  214. We love the sovereignty of our law too well to make any discrimination.

  215. Well now, Mister, our steward thinks as much of himself as anybody and wouldn't mix with your niggers on any account.

  216. He's been kicking up a fuss for two years; but he might as well whistle agin a brickbat as to talk his nonsense about English niggers to South Carolina.

  217. Well now, captain, my father has sent you five dollars to pay your passage to Charleston!

  218. It is well known that it has been the aim of that functionary, whose "characteristic kindness" has not failed to escape the Governor's notice, to thwart the consul in all his proceedings.

  219. We will say nothing of that arduous duty which the jailer performs for his small sum; nor the report that the sheriff's office is worth fourteen thousand dollars a year: these things are too well established.

  220. Scarcely had little Tommy left them at the head of the wharf, before they intimated that it would be well to consider a morning dram.

  221. There is stained glass in the other room, as well as enamels and miniatures and gold and silver snuff-boxes," put in Remonencq.

  222. People do well to mistrust artists; they are as mischievous and spiteful as monkeys.

  223. I am not a solicitor now; I mean to have my name entered on the roll of barristers, and I must be well lodged.

  224. He has taken a dislike to me; well and good, that is enough!

  225. During the past few months this Remonencq had begun to deal in old curiosities, and knew the value of Pons' collection so well that he took off his hat whenever the musician came in or went out.

  226. Camusot was not exactly master in his own house; but this time his remonstrance was so well founded in law and in fact, that his wife and daughter were forced to acknowledge the truth.

  227. Murder is almost always denounced by its advanced guards, by hatred or greed well known to those under whose eyes the whole matter has passed.

  228. In the first place, I have no right to accuse or judge or condemn anybody, for I myself know so well how much may be said for those who seem to be most guilty; secondly, your explanation would do no good.

  229. Why, if the good man is so well off as that, with me in attendance, and Mme.

  230. The rascal's appropriate end vindicates Providence, as well as the chronicler of manners, who is sometimes accused of neglect on this head, perhaps because Providence has been so overworked by playwrights of late.

  231. Now, paintings worth two hundred thousand francs are usually well known; and what errors in judgment people make in estimating even the most famous pictures of all!

  232. His discretion was well known; indeed, was he not bound over to silence when a single imprudent word would have shut the door of ten houses upon him?

  233. It is very doubtful whether the King of the French, who is supposed to understand economy, is as well served as the pair of nutcrackers used to be in those days.

  234. His leading characteristics were sufficiently well known; his position compelled him to take everything seriously; and he was particularly tenacious of family ties.

  235. Schmucke to sell a few pictures unless you like me well enough to keep the secret--such a secret!

  236. Thus, Galton might well maintain that his interpretation of the observable facts is most in accordance with the general analogies supplied by organic nature as a whole.

  237. So that, altogether, we have here on merely a priori grounds about as strong a case against this doctrine of absolute stability as it is well conceivable that on merely a priori grounds a case can be.

  238. A woman may have, by a second husband, children who resemble a former husband, and this is particularly well marked in certain instances by the colour of the hair and eyes.

  239. It is well known that the ripe ovum extrudes two minute particles of protoplasmic substance, which are called polar bodies[10].

  240. Now, although this explanation may well apply to a case of graft-hybridization by means of buds, it obviously cannot do so to any case where hybridization is produced by the grafting of woody tissues.

  241. Professor Weismann has to a large extent abandoned his theory of polar bodies, and in my opinion would have done well had he taken a further step and surrendered the theory in toto.

  242. Of course this general law has always been well known, and more or less fully recognized by all modern physiologists and medical men.

  243. A mechanism that could effect all this may well be deemed impossible.

  244. As a physician of the soul as well as the body, he desired to pour a healing balm on the hidden wound, which he saw was causing suffering of an intense nature.

  245. He sometimes thought that Peter had a warm side for Lucy as well as himself.

  246. He had been ill; he was not yet well enough to return to Forest Hall, and he had been longing to see her, as she to see him.

  247. But she--she didn't ken you as well as I did.

  248. Silence held the inside of the house as well as the outside.

  249. It was a spiritual strength, derived from a spiritual source, though not from the well of light.

  250. It is true that she knew the fells and dales, the tarns and meres of her native country, as well as the oldest shepherd, who had spent his long life among them.

  251. They had waked the well on the 23rd of April for generations--long before there was a church in High Fold, long before good St. Kentergerne had preached the Gospel to their forefathers.

  252. The plot is a good one and well carried through, but the novel excels in its records of the talk of Ulster men and women.

  253. The old folk left behind, used to meet at the well of a summer's morning, and gossip about the days gone by.

  254. Perhaps she had been cold, and he was hurt as well as she.

  255. But, stealing a glance at him, she became aware of his rising emotion; she seemed to hear it like the filling of a well with water.


  256. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "well" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ably; abyss; alright; amply; bonanza; bunkum; cavity; chasm; cistern; comfortable; competently; cornucopia; crater; crevasse; dam; deep; deftly; depth; derivation; dig; diggings; dike; drain; easily; effectively; efficiently; effortlessly; empty; excavation; exhaust; expertly; famously; favorably; featly; fine; fishpond; fit; flow; font; fortunate; fountain; fountainhead; fresh; gainful; good; gulf; gush; hale; handily; happy; headwater; healthy; highly; hole; hollow; inception; item; kindly; lagoon; lightly; lode; lucky; mainspring; masterfully; mine; neatly; nicely; nimbly; origin; outflow; overflow; pit; plash; play; pond; pool; pour; properly; prosperous; provenance; provenience; providential; puddle; quarry; readily; reservoir; resource; right; root; sane; shaft; sluice; smoothly; sound; source; spew; spit; splendidly; spout; spray; spring; spurt; squirt; staple; substantial; sump; superbly; surge; tank; vein; vomit; warmly; well; wellspring; whence; whole; wholesome; workings


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    well adapted; well again; well browned; well built; well buttered; well calculated; well done; well governed; well grown; well informed; well know; well known; well pleas; well pleased; well pleasing; well prepared; well remembered; well served; well shown; well skimmed; well spent; well stirred; well tell; well trained; well watered; well with