I pointed out to the priest various lines in which my name legibly and frequently occurred.
Providence gives to each of its creatures different favours,--to one wit, to the other a capacity for drinking.
The stars were shining quietly over the old gray castle (for castle it really was), as I now came within view of it.
And of himself would often say in fun that what he really WAS proud of was the money he had saved.
His father must have allowed him to believe that he would be poorer than he really was, for some of the difficulty experienced in finding a house in the country must have arisen from the modest sum he felt prepared to give.
It has been affirmed that he was born in 1768, and that he represented himself to be a year younger than he really was.
Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of fear.
The cure thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in reserving as much money as possible from what Jean Valjean had left for the poor.
The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the street itself, appeared to Marius to be more conclusive than it really was.
Perhaps (and I confess that the incoherence of my letter authorized such suspicion) he believed I really was one.
Emily bade the servant follow her, and, if it really was Ludovico, to shew him into the parlour.
Montoni was now also become a daily guest at the chateau, and Emily was compelled to observe, that he really was a suitor, and a favoured suitor, to her aunt.
Going away, I ought to have told that she was right, that I really was a bad man.
They were particularly touching when I really was depressed, when I was being worried by some creditor or had not money enough to pay interest on the proper day.
Johnson told me, that he went up thither without mentioning it to his servant, when he wanted to study, secure from interruption; for he would not allow his servant to say he was not at home when he really was.
Putting on such a dress as would make him appear to any whom he might meet most unlike what he really was, thus, like Ulysses, -- The town he entered of his mortal foes.
A moment of dumb confusion succeeded, then she realized her madness, and the thing as it really was.
Of course she could not tell her friend what it was that made her so quiet, and it really was hard to keep a secret like that of the mysterious man from Tavia.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "really was" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
