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Example sentences for "capitally"

Lexicographically close words:
capitalization; capitalize; capitalized; capitalizing; capitall; capitals; capitanes; capitate; capitation; capite
  1. My friends and self were each capitally mounted with strong and hardy Chinese horses, for which the Chung-wang would not hear of payment.

  2. The last trace of human sacrifice has {472} disappeared only when men no longer punish offenders capitally with a view to appeasing resentful gods.

  3. In Nicaragua it was punished capitally by stoning,[125] and none of the Maya nations was without strict laws against it.

  4. The right of punishing his wife capitally not universally {xvi} granted to the husband in uncivilised communities, p.

  5. Straggles aimlessly westward, followed at intervals by other Shivering Creatures as Curtain descends on "capitally organised" Tableau.

  6. They are both excellent; you have, I think, said all that can be said against direct effects of conditions, and capitally put.

  7. You put capitally and most simply and clearly the relation of animals and plants to each other at page 122.

  8. How capitally he seems to have succeeded in all his enterprises!

  9. I have read them with interest, and they seem to me very good for this purpose and capitally written, as is everything which you write.

  10. How capitally you analyse his notion about law.

  11. All these animal facts will tell capitally in it.

  12. He and his sister pulled along capitally as Damon and Pythias, as they had in fact done all their lives; both were freely outspoken to each other; and if Deborah had the pre-eminence within, the doctor was master out of doors.

  13. A Brahmin could 'on no account be capitally punished.

  14. In the first eleven years of her reign, not one Roman Catholic was prosecuted capitally for religion.

  15. To withhold from them marks of respect subjected the offender to public odium; a personal insult was capitally punished.

  16. The condition of slaves in Rome was most miserable, especially in the later ages; they were subject to the most excruciating tortures, and when capitally punished, were generally crucified.

  17. The patch is, I suspect, too glaring to be pleasing; but the Colonel's sketches are capitally good.

  18. A MAN having been capitally convicted at the Old Bailey, was, as usual, asked what he had to say why judgment of death should not pass against him?

  19. Capitally convicted prisoners did, as a matter of fact, "treat with habitual and inexpressible levity the sentence of death.

  20. At the Old Bailey almost every one capitally convicted by a jury was sentenced to be hanged.

  21. The sheriffs were in one gallery; in the other opposite were the convicts capitally convicted who had been respited.

  22. Cashman was the only one of the Spafields rioters (1816) who was capitally convicted and executed.

  23. I meditate shortly a return to Barbary in quest of the Witch Hamlet, and my adventures in the land of wonders will serve capitally to fill the thin volume of My Life, a Drama, By G.

  24. Throughout the next four years, however, no other foreign missionary was capitally punished in Japan, though many arrived and continued their propagandism.

  25. These churches are capitally built and preserved.

  26. It certainly is a splendid fort, mounting 128 guns, and capitally finished for barracks.

  27. The only way to check them is to make the officers responsible for what occurs, as might be done, for instance, by punishing a general capitally for storming a city with forces so badly disciplined as to nullify the advantages of success.

  28. The most satisfactory is his picture of the Pickwick Club, the portrait of Mr. Pickwick himself being capitally depicted.

  29. Note: As a rule, in the old English law, offenses capitally punishable were felonies; all other indictable offenses were misdemeanors.

  30. Amrei declared with heartfelt sincerity that she found everything capitally arranged, and that she should be only too glad if one day, when she was old, the household was in as good order as it was now.

  31. She is also a most excellent worthy woman, and so cheerful that she and your sister get on capitally together.

  32. Pliny himself admits that individuals who were brought before his own tribunal, and who could not be induced to recant, were capitally punished; and elsewhere the law was not permitted to remain in abeyance.

  33. He liked it, and we got on capitally till Joe roughed him about Jill.

  34. Jack, handling it with delight, as he sat bolt upright, with his leg on a rest, for he was getting on capitally now.

  35. When brought back capitally condemned, he was of necessity put into the condemned cell; and when once there, no visitor may be left alone with him.

  36. It is in excellent order, admirably situated, and capitally irrigated by trenches cut through the cotton and maize fields.

  37. With the article she fell in love, and entreated her husband to buy it; but the sensible gentleman, having his house capitally and fully furnished, would not.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "capitally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    famously; fine; nicely; right; splendidly; well