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Example sentences for "humanly speaking"

  • Humanly speaking, the difference seemed against me, and yet, in a more spiritual point of view, it might perhaps be said to be in my favor.

  • Doubtless, too, there was many a sincere and guileless soul among the philosophic herd, to whom, humanly speaking, nothing more was wanting than the preaching of the faith.

  • Humanly speaking, and to human eyes, the Son of Joseph the carpenter was himself an ignorant man.

  • It was, humanly speaking, by a mere accident that she discovered where it might be found.

  • On these two pillars, humanly speaking, is society built, and whatever is antagonistic to these fundamental principles is necessarily and directly antagonistic to civilization.

  • We can never dare to feel safe in the hands of this unjust--humanly speaking--Moral Governor, or predicate from our instinctive notions of right and wrong what his requirements may be.

  • But no candid man will doubt that, humanly speaking, it was a more difficult thing to write the Principia than to write the Decalogue.

  • Yet, humanly speaking, I have no courage to face this crisis .

  • I often think of it; when you are young it must be hard, humanly speaking, but God knoweth best.

  • Humanly speaking, what chance has he got?

  • There was a good lot of shelling from the Turks but, humanly speaking, we were all quite snug and safe in the big gully or moving down the deep communication trenches.

  • As it swallowed up the last lingering colours of the sunset, the world grew grey, then black, and we were, humanly speaking, safe.

  • These Eski Lines were first held about the 7th or 8th May and have since been worked up, mainly by the energy of de Lisle, into fortifications, humanly speaking, impregnable.

  • Eastern Mediterranean with Maxwell administering my Egyptian Base, then, humanly speaking, this entry would have been dated from Constantinople.

  • Humanly speaking, that people which bounds its efforts only with its being, must give the law to that nation which will not push its opposition beyond its convenience.

  • Humanly speaking, the way in which you meet and hook up with this gentleman will have more to do with determining your success in life than any other one thing.

  • Humanly speaking, it was through the friendly offices of Barnabas that Paul had risen to prominence in the church.

  • Nothing, humanly speaking, but luxury, effeminacy and corruption, can ever deprive us of this envied superiority.

  • Humanly speaking, there is far, far more to keep them fast than to carry them away.

  • The best years of his life are going, and, humanly speaking, there is not any chance of his changing his mind, at least till he has made a trial of the Church of Rome.

  • Take the two men who, humanly speaking, have the affairs of this war most largely in their hands: Admiral Beatty and Sir William Robertson.

  • Humanly speaking, they are a great people, but they are scientific savages.

  • Humanly speaking, the battle was theirs and then Calais was theirs and they could dominate the Channel.

  • Why, man, humanly speaking, we stand on the brink of a volcano.

  • No conditions of peace are worth accepting unless they will, humanly speaking, secure this result.

  • Had Belgium yielded instead of standing out, then, humanly speaking, nothing could have averted the immediate success of the German dash for Paris.

  • But so much as this, it was in connexion with my going to Stuttgart, and, humanly speaking, the thing would not have occurred, had I not gone thither.

  • We should not have had enough, humanly speaking, had there not been sent yesterday afternoon 5l.

  • It has been debated whether the act of a suicide is, humanly speaking, one of courage or cowardice: we are inclined to the latter opinion, but the question is immaterial.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    chromic acid; coal measures; commonly applied; death itself; distant country; grave tone; hear much; humanly speaking; knew them; like form; long struggle; mercantile pursuits; personal characteristics; political events; royal exchequer; should reach; suffered from; take service; total distance; white blood; worked from; would resign