Had Gertrude lived three hundred years later, she would have said what now she only thought--"I am sure I do my duty.
She did not pause to ask herself why she should choose Pandora as its recipient; she only felt it possible to say it to the one, and too hard to utter it to the others.
She had no talent for expression and too little of the consciousness of genius; she only had a general idea that people were right when they treated her as if she were rather superior.
There's nothing in life to prevent her marrying Mr. Osmond if she only looks at him in a certain way.
However, she only answered: "Then I wish you would persuade Fan to go with you.
Fan did not quite understand all this; her mistress was always mocking at something, she knew; she only asked if it was really in the country where she would live.
But Molly, faithful to what she imagined would be Cynthia's wish, refused to allow him to touch it; she only held it a little nearer.
Molly did not know what to say or do; so she only bowed a silent farewell, and turned away to go home, feeling very heavy at heart at the non-success of her undertaking.
She only wants to be out of the high-road, that she may walk slowly and not care how her face looks, as she dwells on wretched thoughts; and through this gate she can get into a field-path behind the wide thick hedgerows.
She could not prevail on herself to say, "I will go to Dinah": she only thought of that as a possible alternative, if she had not courage for death.
SHE thought of her lace caps and saved all her money to buy 'em; she thought nothing about how she might get a clean heart and a right spirit--she only wanted to have better lace than other girls.
She only ventured a few words of peace and hope; but the contrast between the brothers, was just then keen agony, and he could not help exclaiming how strange it was, that Edmund should be the one to be taken.
When her mother at last came upstairs, she only ventured to ask gently, 'How does papa bear it?
She knows that I dislike the man, and may fancy it my doing it she only hears it at second hand.
Butts handed her, it seemed to him that if she onlyopened at any place, and gave one look, her mind drank its meaning up, as a moist sponge absorbs water.
She only says, that she thinks it needless, though she was willing to agree to it.
She only replied, that she received her royal character from the hands of the Almighty, and no earthly power was ever able to bereave her of it.
She only says, "I will give you half an hour by yourself, to think over my proposal.
She said no more; she only tried to withdraw her hand from his for the second time.
The ribbon was pulled out of Topsy's own sleeve, yet was she not in the least disconcerted; she only looked at it with an air of the most surprised and unconscious innocence.
She only wants me to admire her good-nature, and to talk about Anthony.
But just to-day, just at this moment, she only wanted to watch the slender prow, skimming the wonderful opaline waters, drawing ever nearer to those mystic islands floating over yonder like a dream within a dream.
So she only said, after an interval of silence that Geof had scarcely noticed: "I am glad you think us alike, for I have never met a young girl who was as sympathetic to me as Pauline Beverly.
She only thinks of spending, and titivating herself.
And yet you turn round on her and complain, "She only thinks of spending.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she only" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
