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Example sentences for "duly"

Lexicographically close words:
dullness; dulls; dully; dulness; dulse; dum; dumb; dumbbell; dumbbells; dumbe
  1. The last-named hero and his two friends duly presented themselves at Clarges Street next day.

  2. Consequently the last evening was spent in a visit en masse to the library where Jeffreys was duly summoned to assist Mr Rimbolt in exhibiting the treasures it contained.

  3. When I finally camped to watch it out all these premonitory symptoms had been duly exhibited.

  4. The name of every mountain or pass he has climbed is duly burnt into his Alpenstock, and the said stock, well burnt over, is his pride in travel and a grand testimonial of his ability at home.

  5. Now, when the king had heard these noble propositions, and had duly considered the mischievous practices of those bloodthirsty giants, he immediately granted what honest Jack requested.

  6. Duly as night came round, she occupied her lonely station, in the same low crouching attitude, and pursued the dreary obligations of her destiny, till the grey streaks of the dawn gave admonition to depart.

  7. And even after she had been duly provided with mittens and apron, and begun on the corn, the chatter and boisterous merriment which her arrival had interrupted, did not at once resume its course.

  8. You may, therefore, expect to meet in arms thousands of unexchanged prisoners released by you and others on parole, not to serve again till duly exchanged.

  9. Of course, I executed my part to the letter, and these officers were duly "lassooed.

  10. The next day I turned my prisoners over to Colonel Wright, who had them marched to the upper landing of the Cascades, where, after a trial by a military commission, nine of them were sentenced to death and duly hanged.

  11. On the 4th of March General Grant was duly inaugurated President of the United States, and I was nominated and confirmed as General of the Army.

  12. The three acceptances duly matured and were paid; one morning Meiggs and family were missing, and it was discovered they had embarked in a sailing-vessel for South America.

  13. In case this should prove the plan, a signal will be arranged and you duly informed, when the transports are to start with this view.

  14. My DEAR SIR: Your letter was duly receive, and would have been answered ere this time could I have arranged sooner the matter of the five hundred dollars.

  15. We then made the preliminary surveys of the city of "New York of the Pacific," all of which were duly plotted; and for this work we each received from Stevenson five hundred dollars and ten or fifteen lots.

  16. So the large envelope was duly directed to John Temple, Esq.

  17. It was contained in a letter from John Temple; a letter duly forwarded under cover to Miss Webster, and placed in May's hand by that lady with a little tremulous sigh.

  18. In it were duly set forth the date and other particulars of the marriage of John Temple and May Churchill, or rather of Margaret Alice Churchill, for May had given her full baptismal name on the occasion of her marriage.

  19. Etienne had duly received knighthood after the taking of the Camp of Refuge.

  20. On the same day Maurice was duly notified of the passage of the law.

  21. The enthusiastic crowd declared that they would see to it that the completion of the great dam was duly celebrated, and with one accord they voted that Helen was to swing the last stone into place.

  22. Winston had been duly notified and was ready for their entertainment.

  23. As we went Umslopogaas told me that he had duly appointed Lousta and his wife Monazi to rule the tribe during his absence, an office which they accepted doubtfully, Monazi acting as Chieftainess and Lousta as her head Induna or Councillor.

  24. I had refused to be duly overcome by her charms, not because I was unimpressed, for who could be, having looked upon that blinding beauty even for a moment?

  25. The Senecas of the mixed band of Senecas and Shawnees were not originally parties to the treaty, but provision was duly made for their becoming so.

  26. From the beginning, McCulloch seemed determined not to take Ross seriously, yet he duly informed Secretary Walker of the turn events were taking.

  27. The authorities of the other tribes were duly notified[105] and to the Creek was given the privilege of naming time and place.

  28. Pike or some other duly authorized person, to be here at the appointed time to consummate treaties with them; they say that no further depredations will be committed on Texas, provided the twenty men above described are killed.

  29. John was not asked to join them, but one of the girls threw him a boiled mealiecob, for which, being still very hungry, he was duly grateful, and afterwards he managed to secure a mutton bone and another bit of bread.

  30. Every man will give his verdict, having duly considered if there is any way by which, in accordance with the holy dictates of his conscience, and with the natural promptings to pity in his heart, he can extend mercy to the prisoner.

  31. Duly apprised of the recurrence of a phenomenon he had himself vainly looked for during some years, M.

  32. I shall duly praise your care to my husband.

  33. Setna duly performs his promise, and so the story ends.

  34. And now, when they saw the Argo and the band of heroes, they sallied forth from their city, duly armed, with Hypsipyle their Queen for their leader; for they thought that now indeed the Thracians were come.

  35. Put not off this trial of the bow, for before one of them shall draw the string the great Ulysses shall come and duly shoot at the mark that shall be set.

  36. And when AEneas would have looked further, the priestess said, "Linger not with these things, but slay forthwith seven bullocks from the herd, and seven sheep duly chosen out of the flock.

  37. And having duly done his shepherd's work, he made his cruel feast as before.

  38. I have duly received thy letter, and found therein thy shyness and passion all right and good, and thyself entire.

  39. You see by my persistence I have got a daughter-in-law"--and she was duly married to Dukhu.

  40. So said, so done;--the women duly made their husbands drunk and then put on pagris and dhoties and stuck goats' beards on their faces and went off to Marang Buru to learn witchcraft.

  41. The hyaena readily agreed but thought it would be better to send another messenger, while he stayed by the tiger to see that all the animals duly presented themselves.

  42. However the marriage they had arranged duly took place, but the fact was that the bride was entirely ignorant of how to clean and spin cotton.

  43. So when they reached home there was a feast ready and the bride's friends were duly entertained and dismissed.

  44. So the wedding duly took place, and then the Prince and the merchant's son with their respective wives returned to their fathers' houses.

  45. So a day was fixed for the wedding and invitations were issued and it duly took place.

  46. When he arrived he was duly welcomed and after some conversation he told his daughter that he must return the same day; she said "All right, but wait till it gets hot.

  47. Two or three days after, the tiger presented himself at her house and was duly married to the daughter.

  48. This set suspicion at rest; the wedding was at once arranged and duly took place, and the merchant's son settled down to live with his wife's family.

  49. There followed several of the hotel guests, who had been duly summonsed to tell what they knew of the early stages of the fire, and whether they had seen any suspicious characters about the hotel or the village on that day.

  50. So it came about that Henry Burns was duly despatched to Maine for the summer, as a guest of Colonel Witham.

  51. Henry Burns put in an appearance soon after, and the subject of the voyage was duly discussed in all its phases, and settled.

  52. The true explanation is that he was continually evolving or devising incidents which, once given shape, remained with him as facts to be thenceforth remembered and related as occurrences duly observed.

  53. Sir George Lewis, eyeglass duly adjusted, stands surveying the house and nodding to his many acquaintances.

  54. The tenner was duly passed under the table.

  55. The paragraph duly made its appearance, and Knight was severely taken to task because he was in the habit of writing about the same performance in several newspapers.

  56. If you like,” replied the Governor, shrugging his shoulders, and regarding the new settler as a man suffering from a loose tile or so; and a murderer whose domestic accomplishments fitted him for the post was duly allotted to the parson.

  57. The shorthand writer was duly installed in his cave.

  58. The article duly appeared with Clement Scott’s name in large letters both at the top and bottom of it.

  59. His paper was duly launched at the price of twopence, and under the admirable title of Vanity Fair.

  60. The prisoner was duly put forward, the indictment read, and the malefactor asked to plead.

  61. All that the Leddy required was duly performed.

  62. Blessed are the eyes that truly Now on earth behold the Lord; Happy are the ears that duly Listen to His living word!

  63. And so, at the close of a Christmas service in the Frederiksberg church in 1815, he solemnly announced that he would not enter a pulpit again until he had been duly appointed to do so by the proper authorities.

  64. Blessed were the eyes that truly Here on earth beheld the Lord; Happy were the ears that duly Listened to His living word.

  65. The miner attaches a numbered tag to the car, so that he will be duly credited for his work, which is paid for by the ton.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    duly authorized; duly elected; duly qualified