He dragged himself along until he came to a drug-shop, the modern saloon of the respectably virtuous.
I should not do justice to his own idea of himself if I did not add that he was most respectably connected, and that he had a justifiable though feeble pride in his family.
The men were mostly respectably attired, and wore rosettes of various colours, from which were suspended the medals of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society.
It is now a complaint of quiterespectably antiquity that the types in which humanity was originally set up by a humour-loving Providence are worn out and require recasting.
Lizzie Maurice is going on, and if she should marry respectably in her own rank, ask my father to give you a hundred pounds as a wedding present for her; only hint that it was my wish, and he would give twenty times the sum.
The meeting was most respectablyattended by men of all parties, and more than £300 was at once collected for the purpose of furnishing the poor with provisions at a cheap rate.
A case which excited great interest in the city of Worcester, was the trial of Charles Samuel Atkins, a young manrespectably connected, who was in the employ of Messrs.
He was respectably drest, except that upon his head he wore a common hairy cap.
She was tolerably respectably dressed, seemed about five-and-thirty, and was rather good-looking.
He was respectably dressed, and policemen on the look-out for suspicious tramps did not give him a second glance.
Mainwaring stated in the House that the meeting had been most respectably attended, and that the requisition had been signed by three dukes, one marquis, two earls, and several freeholders.
In his and Edmund Kean's time it was respectably frequented.
It was well paved, and its houses were respectably inhabited.
He wasrespectably dressed, except that upon his head he wore a common hairy cap.
When they leave school, the boys learn trades or become farm-servants, and the girls go to service like other country girls, and many of them get respectably married.
The cost of each did not exceed ten pounds per annum; that is to say, for the sum of about four shillings a week a child is respectably brought up in the house of a foster-parent.
A woman, respectably attired, but whose features were partially hidden by a close bonnet that seemed formed to conceal the face, was standing immediately beside us.
The watch interfered--we joined our quondam opponents in a treaty, offensive and defensive, to resist this impertinent intervention, and the fight for a short time wasrespectably maintained.
There is something foolish, but respectably foolish, in this wish to shut out light which has been streaming for years over these old tombs and memories.
For some time after Buckingham's release, he lived quietly andrespectably at Nun-Appleton, with General Fairfax and the vapid Mary.
Pietro, the younger brother, was almost an equal thorn in his prudent and respectably ambitious brother's side.
He looked very respectably indeed, both covers dark, ancient, very decently matched; one would hardly notice the fact that they were not twins.
I had come to feeling that I knew most of the respectably dressed people whom I met in the cars, and had been in contact with them at some time or other.
Replying to further questions by Mr. Charrington, witness said he found in the dress circle a number of prostitutes, respectably dressed, walking about in twos.
It may fairly be said, I think, that, as a body, English publishers produce their books as respectably as any publishers in the world.
The celebrated Italian will also dance the Fandango, and the Theatre will be respectably illuminated.
Generally speaking, the Harleian volumes are most respectably bound; but they have little variety, and the style of art which they generally exhibit rather belongs to works of devotion.
Why, he only saw her twice, or something of that sort, and she was respectably married to somebody else, yet she coloured his whole life, and he seems to have been quite contented.
Bullfrog had made such a fool of himself; if he had taken her advice, he would have kept on respectablyas a nice old Bullfrog should.
Nutcracker Lodge was a hole in a sturdy old chestnut overhanging a shady dell, and was held to be as respectably kept an establishment as there was in the whole forest.
When the Spanish War broke out the navy really was largely on a war footing, as any navy which is even respectably cared for in time of peace must be.
Any man, if he chooses, can gradually school himself to the requisite nerve, and gradually learn the requisite seat and hands, that will enable him to do respectably across country, or to perform the average work on a ranch.
But as an Earl's daughter, respectably married to a millionaire, am a mistake of nature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "respectably" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: decently; fairly; honorably; moderately; nobly; pretty; rather; tolerably
