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Example sentences for "perfectly well"

  • Perfectly well: the sister who kept the watch did not hear him stir.

  • If you know every thing so perfectly well, I wish you would tell me what could have been the motive for the crime, for, after all, we do not run the risk of losing our head without some very powerful and tangible purpose.

  • I went, and found a kind of street-minstrel, who seemed to me to be perfectly well.

  • I'm well, perfectly well--at least I shall be perfectly well when I'm alone.

  • I am perfectly well, though to be sure Lapland is the torrid zone in comparison of Paris.

  • I know nothing upon earth but what the ancient ladies in my neighbourhood knew threescore years ago; I write merely to pay you my pepper-corn of affection, and to inquire after my lady, who I hope is perfectly well.

  • Now, as between the external and internal evidence, there can be little doubt that the latter has by far the greater weight, especially as the external evidence can, perfectly well, be read in a different sense.

  • From that moment he made rapid progress and at the present time (1921) he is perfectly well.

  • Shortly afterwards his uncle comes and tells me that he has just had a letter from his nephew, who is perfectly well.

  • I could begin to take my food again, digesting it perfectly well, and I again experienced the feeling of hunger which I had not known for months.

  • She is perfectly well now, the sweetest, fattest thing you ever saw, and a real beauty, and she is so devoted to me that she cries whenever I go out of her sight.

  • Can't you see for yourself that he's perfectly well?

  • She's got into her head that there's something wrong with Harry, but you can tell by looking at the child that he is perfectly well.

  • I am perfectly well," insisted Virginia, a little angry with John Henry because he had been the first to notice her blushes.

  • As a matter of fact he's perfectly well able to look after himself.

  • It's exactly the same in principle as why a good doctor tries to cheer up a patient by saying that he'll be perfectly well in the inside of a week after a trifling operation.

  • You must understand it perfectly well, and in any case I'm bound to respect Miss King's confidence.

  • No doubt his excellency is perfectly well informed of my doings here, for he knows my address and has spies everywhere.

  • De la Haye is perfectly well aware of my system, and of my way of thinking on religious matters, but, being himself very devout, he entertains a holy sympathy for my soul, and I do not object to it.

  • When I felt the fever coming on I told my man not to let anybody come to see me, and to place all my letters in my desk; for I wanted to be perfectly well before I troubled myself with anything.

  • No, I was not, and I knew it perfectly well; but I gave these presents because I was afraid of not being able to do so if I waited.

  • I can tell what sort of dinners you like best--perfectly well.

  • Louis Moore's doubts respecting the immediate evacuation of Fieldhead by Mr. Sympson turned out to be perfectly well founded.

  • Had I a house of my own in Philadelphia, I should not at all despair of gradually collecting about me a society that would satisfy me perfectly well; but as it is, or rather as I am, the thing is entirely out of the question.

  • He was, notoriously, one of the most worthless men of his day; which circumstance never prevented his being perfectly well received by the men and women of the best English society.

  • Perfectly well," replied Tom; "but I was paying so much attention to you, that I did not notice him.

  • Perfectly well," retorted the lady, "they are allied to the Wrongheads of the province of Munster!

  • Her manner was that of a perfectly well-bred gentlewoman, and her person displayed no small portion of attractive and elegant accomplishment.

  • She knew, perfectly well, that Mrs. Majendie wouldn't take it.

  • In this case I should say you could--perfectly well.

  • If it absorbs completely he may get well--perfectly well.

  • Tom Sawyer, they're set down on the map, and you know it perfectly well, and here they are, and you can see for yourself.

  • I am in a position to be perfectly well able to indulge every whim that seizes me; and just now it is my whim to become your client, and to purchase of you a considerable portion of your valuable time.

  • Though roasting is one of the most common, and is generally considered one of the most easy and simple processes of cookery, it requires more unremitting attention to perform it perfectly well than it does to make most made-dishes.

  • When there is company, never attempt to dress any thing which you have not ascertained that you can do perfectly well.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    first blush; glorious victory; having three; inch across; perfectly certain; perfectly clean; perfectly clear; perfectly free; perfectly fresh; perfectly lovely; perfectly normal; perfectly right; perfectly safe; perfectly satisfied; perfectly smooth; perfectly splendid; perfectly straight; perfectly sure; perfectly tender; perfectly true; perfectly well; perpendicular wall; set them; should seek; white face; winter visitant