Completely

Examples

• My impression is that the shock inflicted on me completely suspended my thinking and feeling power. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The order appeared to take him completely by surprise. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• All this time Gerald had been completely ignored. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She hid her face on his shoulder, hiding before him, because he could see her so completely. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Therefore something had occurred between seven-thirty and nine o'clock which had completely altered her feelings towards him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve their's. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• This was exactly as it should be; for the young man wanted only regimentals to make him completely charming. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Yet the force of this mighty giant is so completely under control, and may be brought to act so gently, as scarcely to crack a nut placed to receive its fall. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• His ambition was to restore the empire of Jengis Khan as he conceived it, a project in which he completely failed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• From that time until July, 1878, his time and attention day and night were almost completely absorbed by the excitement caused by the invention and exhibition of the machine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And now gradually came the wonder that he stood up, completely clothed, another man, and not the Bargeman. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• During those two centuries the Japanese remained as completely cut off from the rest of the world as though they lived upon another planet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I do own myself to have been completely mistaken in Mr. Elton. Jane Austen. Emma.
• With this exception, their good-humour was completely restored; and the evening concluded with the conviviality with which it had begun. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• At that point he had transcended the mind of the petty reformer completely. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Her character however was completely changed, from gay to serious, and she was always occupied in writing or reading. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I solemnly accepted his commission, dear good fellow, and cannot discharge it too completely. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• To Selden's exasperated observation she was only too completely alive to them. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• How completely it meant, 'why should my picture be drawn? Jane Austen. Emma.
• It missed its mark, and completely failed, as is often the way with his tribe too. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Th e usage is so completely established that by the majority it is simply taken for granted. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The heavy, fair young man ignored her completely; he was really afraid of her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Spirit broken and gone--pulverised--crushed out of him, sir, completely! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The escort and the universal watchfulness had completely isolated him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I am completely by myself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• We have dealt thus lengthily with the First Crusade, because it displays completely the quality of all these expeditions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Do you mean to say, he asked, that you are completely isolated from every connection? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It cannot be said that the promised land was ever completely in the grasp of the Hebrews. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It has been completely unexpected. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Relieved of her wrapping, she appeared exceedingly tiny; but was a neat, completely-fashioned little figurelight, slight, and straight. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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