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Example sentences for "excessively"

Lexicographically close words:
excess; excesse; excesses; excessiue; excessive; exchange; exchangeable; exchanged; exchanger; exchangers
  1. The positive or nickel plate consists of one or more perforated steel tubes, heavily nickel plated, filled with alternate layers of nickel hydroxide and pure metallic nickel in excessively thin flakes.

  2. If an electric vehicle, after a late evening run, is to be used in the morning, the battery may be charged during the night without an attendant being present; but in doing this great care must be taken not to excessively overcharge.

  3. The piercing cold was excessively trying: our sarapés did not seem sufficient to protect us from its influence.

  4. I noticed that Gringalet, instead of gambolling round us as he generally did, remained behind, pricking up his ears, and appearing excessively knowing.

  5. The burlettas are begun; I think, not decisively liked or condemned yet: their success is certainly not rapid, though Pertici is excessively admired.

  6. I pity you excessively upon finding him in such a situation- what a shock it must have been to you!

  7. Tis excessively near the original; and yet, I don't know, 'tis very easy too.

  8. I carried her son with me to Vauxhall last night: he is a most charming boy,(608) but grows excessively like her in the face.

  9. He will make a good husband; for he is excessively good-natured, and was much better to that strange wife than he cared to own.

  10. The house is excessively full every Saturday, never on Tuesday: here, you know, we make every thing a fashion.

  11. The ball was on an excessively hot night: yet she was dressed in a magnificent brocade, because it was new that morning for the inauguration-day.

  12. I was excessively diverted with your pompous account of the siege of Lucca by a single Englishman.

  13. Say a great deal for me to Mr. Whithed; he is excessively good to me; I don't know how to thank him.

  14. She is excessively pretty and sensible, but as diminutive as he.

  15. I feel excessively for you, my dear child, on the loss of Mr. Chute!

  16. You've no notion how excessively I was disappointed.

  17. You will be excessively entertained, then, I assure you.

  18. He reflected that his life, which until lately had been of a stagnant, contemplative quality, had suddenly become excessively active.

  19. She looked pale, even a little scared--in reality excessively self-conscious now that the ordeal of facing all the company awaited her.

  20. But before she reached the hotel she began to grow excessively weary.

  21. I expect to be excessively amused by it, but it will take up a terrible deal of my time, for I am sure they will need rehearsals without end.

  22. The surface of the Pass was rough, and the angle was excessively steep, though not precipitous.

  23. I'm not excessively smart, but I'll try to be of assistance.

  24. You must get over this difficulty not so much by leaving the lines wide apart as by trying to draw them excessively fine, lightly and swiftly; being very cautious in filling in; and, at last, passing the penknife over the whole.

  25. But one of them is quiet in temperament, has a feeble memory, no invention, and excessively keen sight.

  26. Bigot was excessively irritated, for he was lawyer enough to know that Cadet's fear was well founded.

  27. He was excessively annoyed at all this enthusiasm in behalf of Pierre Philibert.

  28. Pausing for a few minutes, we commenced the descent of les Montees in a very matter-of-fact way, glissading being quite out of the question on account of the soft condition of the snow, for the weather was now excessively hot.

  29. The weather being excessively hot, we deemed it advisable to start at this early hour in order to reach Forclaz before the great mid-day heat.

  30. On inquiry, Clark learned that Nez Perces came from the west by a very bad road towards the north, where they suffered excessively from hunger and travel.

  31. Then they are excessively requiring, and generally disagreeable.

  32. They are a most extravagantly vain people; are reputed to be very deficient in courage; excessively lascivious and immoral; of which proofs are presented at every step.

  33. Three fourths of two sides of the room were open to the air, protected from rain only by the long projecting attap roof--we were guarded during the night by soldiers and excessively annoyed by moschetoes.

  34. Unless you think of them, you will not even feel that anything interrupts your sight, so excessively slight is their effect.

  35. But if the line slope, its reflection will be excessively confused and disjointed; and if horizontal, nearly invisible.

  36. It is seen chiefly in clouds gathering for rain, when the sky is entirely covered with a gray veil rippled or waved with pendent swells of soft texture, but excessively hard and liny in their edges.

  37. The metallic relief thus obtained is dried over a spirit lamp, and covered with an excessively thin varnish.

  38. A gun made of annular tubes meets this part of the difficulty; for, if the inner tube is excessively heated, it can elongate and slip a little within those surrounding it, without disturbing them.

  39. Cornelia, who was usually excessively annoyed by this behavior, seemed on the present occasion to be superior to all petty vexation.

  40. Just be so good as to hold your tongues," cried Quintus, who had been excessively amused by Herodianus' pugnacity.

  41. The march on return occupied us about two hours, but the path was so excessively slippery, owing to the grass not being cut away on either side and to the dry weather and heat, that our progress was very slow.

  42. Immediately around Moflong, the country is excessively bare, not a tree is to be seen, even the sides of ravines being clothed with stunted shrubs.

  43. It is in one spot excessively thick, and many of the plants had attained a considerable size, but the largest had been cut down, when it was visited by people from Suddiya in search of tea some short time ago.

  44. I reached the coolies about eight, covered with mud, the path in the wood being very difficult and excessively slippery.

  45. This becomes excessively thick and wet along the water courses, which are of frequent occurrence towards the base of the range, both on the northern and southern sides.

  46. Smithia commences at Moosmai; Pandanus also; this is excessively common on hills to the left, towards the caves.

  47. The resources of the city are evidently small, the only things indeed that appear plentiful are earthenware and milk: grain is excessively dear, but is reported to exist in considerable quantities.

  48. Chugur, where, about 400 yards of excessively difficult ground occurred, commanded by the precipice under which the path, which is execrable, runs.

  49. They are very dirty, and excessively penurious, but industrious.

  50. All this is of course excessively dangerous, but we must remember that Chuang Tzu lived more than two thousand years ago, and never had the opportunity of seeing our unrivalled civilisation.

  51. The constant repetition of an act of such accuracy for nine hours a day had strained her eyes excessively and made her extremely nervous.

  52. Mrs. Hallett lived in an excessively small, unheated hall bedroom, on the fourth floor of an enormous old house filled with the clatter of the elevated railroad.

  53. It froze excessively hard, and the ground was so slippery that we had to travel very slowly.

  54. Now between the Grand Duke and myself there was always some reference to this son, for he was excessively attached to the man; and I also liked him very much.

  55. She was a very ugly child, of an olive complexion, and excessively slovenly.

  56. The day was excessively hot, and the sea perfectly calm.

  57. Indeed, he was all the better pleased by my not eating too many, as there were more left for himself, for he was excessively greedy in the matter of oysters.

  58. His heart was excessively small, and also dried up.

  59. The fact is, the business is very simple indeed, and I make no doubt that we can manage it sufficiently well ourselves; but then I thought Dupin would like to hear the details of it, because it is so excessively odd.

  60. The petioles are sensitive to a touch and to excessively slight continued pressure, even from a loop of soft thread weighing only the one- sixteenth of a grain (4.

  61. In these cases the pressure, though spread over a wider surface than that touched by the cotton thread, must have been excessively slight.

  62. A large majority of its so-called tendrils still bear leaflets, though excessively reduced in size; but some few of them may properly be designated as tendrils, for they are completely destitute of laminae or blades.

  63. The wool must not be dyed, for these tendrils are excessively sensitive to some poisons.

  64. To show how sensitive the young petioles are, I may mention that I just touched the under sides of two with a little water-colour, which when dry formed an excessively thin and minute crust; but this sufficed in 24 hrs.


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