Of course, much time is spent in all these ceremonies, and, in the natural tide of events, the drought frequently passes, and the rain maker is gratefully regarded as the benefactor of his tribe.
Now and then prairies looking like islands, resembling so many gems, are found in the midst of this dark sea of everlasting foliage; and how gratefully my eyes met them no one can conceive, unless he has lived in such a solitude.
Looking gratefully up at her husband she said gravely: "You thought the victory was yours, but when you found me claiming it and realized what it meant to me, you hand it to me without a word.
Enthusiastically and gratefullyshe exclaimed: "You're a thoroughbred, Virgie!
Mr. Crawford would certainly never address her so again: he must have seen how unwelcome it was to her; and in that case, how gratefully she could esteem him for his friendship to William!
Thereafter, and to his life’s end, Watts-Dunton could never speak toogratefully or too appreciatively of Sir William Robertson Nicoll.
I leave that gratefully enough to the philosophers.
Half gratefullyand half mournfully he disengaged himself, not because he did not believe in his principles, but because he saw that the difficulties were insuperable.
Then with kisses, thanks and all the good wishes that happy hearts could imagine, the guests drove away, to remember long and gratefully that pleasant country Christmas.
Joe, as gratefully as if that hospital-cot was a bed of roses.
The judges gratefully agreed, remembered that this was so expressed in ancient English law, but now obsolete, thanks to bishops' sloth or princes' tyranny.
Hugh gratefully accepted their counsel, and added, "All the same, Brother Gerard, you will have to see to it that you are as modest as you are free in your discourse.
As Jo knew not what else to do, he for a second time gratefully accepted the offer of this stranger, and followed him out through the inhospitable doorway he had so hopefully entered a few minutes before.
I will gratefully accept all the kindness you offer, and pass it along to some other fellow, whenever I find one in a trouble out of which I can help him.
Miss Mitford gratefully records the sympathy of her friends, the warm-hearted muses of the day.
If choice must be between two seasons, each so full of charm, it is at least no bad philosophy to prefer the present good, even whilst looking gratefully back, and hopefully forward, to the past and the future.
Insurrections took the form of a book, gratefully dedicated to its own begetter.
I once had the honour--which I gratefully remember--of a long talk with W.
Ethel greeted the detective warmly as an old acquaintance, and thanked him gratefully for the part he had played in the rescue.
But Camelia took a long breath of recovery; sighed with it, and felt the blood come back gratefully to her heart.
He then with much courtesy invited me to partake of some refreshment, which I gratefully declined.
I do not desire to think of the body, and, strange to say, if I do think of it, the times that I remembergratefully are those when the body was faint and weary.
He gratefully acknowledges the kind disposition always manifested toward him by the government of the Sublime Porte, which has extended to him every facility for carrying out the works of his ministry.
I was pleased to meet a friend at the door, who insisted on my going home with her, and I gratefullyaccepted the invitation; for I felt tired and faint.
These are some of the cruel memories which the happiest travel leaves, and I gratefully recall that in the case of a custodian of the Columbian Museum, which adjoins the cathedral, we did not inflict a pang that rankled in our hearts for long.
He was kind to some people and was popularly known as the Justiciary; he especially liked the Moors and Jews, who were gratefully glad, poor things, of being liked by any one under the new Christian rule.
The decisive battle of the war for independence, whose centennial anniversary will soon be gratefully celebrated at Yorktown, had not yet been fought.
Therefore Edith wrote him-- "It is very kind of you to offer friendship and help to one situated like myself, and I gratefully grant what you rather oddly call 'a favor.
He was early in life rescued from West Indian Slavery by a Gentleman of this Parish which he ever gratefully remembered and whom he continued to serve as a Footman honestly and faithfully to the end of his Life.
But the Jew had acquired his franchise, and gratefullyhe remembered those to whom he owed this priceless blessing.
Crushed and forsaken, as all Israel was, it gratefully responded to this message of universal brotherhood.
I shall never, never forget that you were kind to him when he wanted a friend, and that you have the greatest claim of any one on earth to be gratefully remembered in my thoughts as long as I live.
Mr. Knifton had lately married a young lady whom my mother had nursed, and whose kindness and friendship for me, her foster-sister, I shall remember gratefully to the last day of my life.
When I made her my little present on her wedding day, and when she gratefully entreated me to tell her what she could do for me in return, I asked for a copy of her diary to keep among the papers that I treasured most.
She took up the letter again, and looked at it so ruefully that I drew her head a little nearer to me, and gratefully kissed the smooth white forehead.
But Mr. Navoni was an earnest, determined, and enthusiastic teacher, and I remember himgratefully and respectfully.
As these were always admired by their civilized relatives, and gratefully accepted, they were happier than millionnaires.
This table, with its alluring figures, that seem to glean gratefully after the steps of labor, is the negro's manifesto of the French slave-trade.
With gentle condescension, Sixtus offered his cigar-case to the lackey, who gratefully helped himself to a cigar.
Although she had been lonely while at the cloister, she had there found a friend who, if she had little to impart, gratefully accepted all that Irma could give her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gratefully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
