It was pertinentlyasked whether the American navy should be used to help creditors collect their debts anywhere in Latin-America.
The woman suffragists very pertinently asked why the same principle did not apply to women.
For as the widow had pertinently inquired of the hired man, only the night before, "How can a body cook good victuals without ingrejunce?
Regarding Luther's disputations against the Antinomians Planck pertinentlyremarks that they compel admiration for his clear and penetrating mind, and rank among the very best of his writings.
Frank commentspertinently that the magis presupposes a certain degree of liberty of the will before the assistance of the Holy Spirit.
As Earl Shaftesbury pertinently remarks: “A holder of the ticket-of-leave goes before a magistrate; and what happens?
Upon which Seneca pertinently remarks, that the exercise of lenity should always be an act of free deliberation.
Dobson pertinently observes that the colours of this bat appear to be the result of the "protective mimicry" which we see so often in insects, the Mantidea and other genera, the colours being adapted to their abiding places.
Blyth pertinently remarks: "The varieties of this handsome little cat are endless, and nominal species may be made of it, ad libitum, if not rather ad nauseam.
Thus can the Professor, at least in lucid intervals, look away from his own sorrows, over the many-coloured world, and pertinently enough note what is passing there.
Coleridge remarks very pertinently somewhere, that wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.
By taking it, would you not expose yourself to be most pertinently and embarrassingly asked, for what purpose these servants fled to a strange and most odious people?
Just as pertinently may you ask, whether that is not a good system of servitude, which is found in some of our state prisons.
Havelock Ellis, commenting on this difference, pertinently remarks, "It is open to a man in a Pharisaic mood to thank God that his cranial type is far removed from the infantile.
The participation of the Northern States in the original sin of the enslavement of Africans was pertinently urged.
Thus: “The subject of my discourse bears most pertinently upon a matter of the greatest national as well as personal importance.
There is a most interesting sequel to my brief narrative of the great outrage upon liberty in the metropolis of New England, which cannot be so pertinently told in any other connection.
In the course of his criticism the same writer pertinently observes:-- "Why, what a wonderful thing is this!
Goddard pertinently inquires: "What, then, were these great excavations so carefully concealed in the midst of lone forests?
Mr. Wilson of Massachusetts pertinently asked Mr. Davis "if the credit of the government is not good enough, where is there left in the country any thing good enough to bank on?
He was pertinently reminded that the evil he might prevent would never be known, whereas the evil to which he consented would be read of all men.
Not abandoning the hope of an amicable adjustment, the President pertinently informed Congress that "they alone possess the power to remove grievances which might lead to war, and to secure peace and union.
He replied very spiritedly and pertinently that these dames were "not desiryable women as to temporal graces," which was certainly sufficient and proper reason for any man to give, were he Puritan or Cavalier.
Since nutrition sustains life, it has beenpertinently termed perpetual reproduction.
The remarks of Herbert Spencer on the "Multiplication of Schemes of Juvenile Culture," may be pertinently applied to the different schools in medicine with increased force.
Argenson very pertinently remarked that self-same morning, "would any beautiful woman care to engage the attentions of a man unless she aroused at the same time the jealousy or at least the annoyance of a rival?
Non servastis praecepta sanctuarii mei;" a reflection which is not ours, but very pertinently made by the zealous American bishop whose words we have already quoted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pertinently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
