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Example sentences for "perfectly plain"

  • There is no triforium, the wall above the arcade being perfectly plain up to a carved stringcourse which is carried round the church below the clerestory; the windows in which are filled with flamboyant tracery.

  • For half its height it is perfectly plain, built of rough stone, with occasional courses of brick, and quoined with brick.

  • The reason is perfectly plain, when you consider that the composer who offers you a melody for a cash price is interested only in the small lump sum he receives.

  • Why these men cannot perform what they promise is perfectly plain in the light of all that has been said about the popular song.

  • The main cornice is larger, but the pediment is perfectly plain.

  • On each side are seven square bays separated by perfectly plain buttresses, each bay consisting of two very plain pointed arches resting on the moulded capitals of coupled shafts.

  • Perfectly plain, my lord, and your candour does you credit.

  • Perfectly plain paper, thick, smooth, and white, is the most elegant.

  • If white collars and sleeves are worn, they should be of linen, perfectly plain.

  • This shaft, which is perfectly plain, and shows no signs of a capital, has an altitude of thirty-six feet, with a diameter of three feet four inches at the base.

  • Except for these, the whole edifice is perfectly plain.

  • The character of Paulinism as a redemptive religion involved a certain conception of the Redeemer, which is perfectly plain on the pages of the Pauline Epistles.

  • But one motive for the introduction of the new divinity (or of the new name for an old divinity) is perfectly plain.

  • The answer to these questions might seem to be perfectly plain.

  • From this rises the roof in a square pyramid, perfectly plain or smooth, for ten feet more.

  • The interior is perfectly plain, the exterior could never have possessed more than the simplest architectural embellishment.

  • Remember this is a perfectly plain soup I am making to-day, without the addition of meat of any kind; but of course you will vary the flavor of the soup by adding the bones of ham or other meat, or a very little fried onion.

  • I have given you a perfectly plain home-made bread.

  • To the stew add any vegetable you wish, or cook it perfectly plain, having only the meat and the gravy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    chiefly composed; commit himself; fastened together; left alone; original work; perfectly certain; perfectly clear; perfectly free; perfectly happy; perfectly hardy; perfectly lovely; perfectly natural; perfectly normal; perfectly plain; perfectly right; perfectly splendid; perfectly straight; perfectly sure; perfectly tender; perfectly transparent; perfectly willing; prepared for; side with; temple dedicated; then governor; triangle encircled