Sometimes he dressed quite smartly in clothes undoubtedly cut by a West-End tailor.
Indeed, he was smartly dressed, wearing a black overcoat with a velvet collar, and well-ironed silk hat.
Directly birds appear, the play-line is smartly pulled, which has the effect of jerking the play-bird upwards, while at the same time it flutters its wings to regain its perch.
When climbing, the hands clasp the tree in the usual manner, and the side of the foot is struck smartly against the trunk, to cause the claw to penetrate.
To use this machine, you simply stretch it to its full extent and run out in front of any insect you wish to stop, clapping it smartly together and securing your captive in the bag formed when the net is shut.
He was dressed very smartly as a groom, with a clean white shirt and clean white duck riding breeches.
It has much of the rapidity and vigor of a smartly written farce, with a pervading freshness a smartly written farce rarely possesses.
Her feeling now was that she had made advances, spontaneous and friendly, and been smartly rebuffed.
And then it was suddenly seen by all that Mr. Canning had been gathered in by his adroit old friend Miss Allen, and smartly withdrawn from the general society.
A smartly dressed young man was lounging at the counter, apparently basking in Christina's smiles.
She drew away from him so smartly that he turned his face towards her.
Just at this moment my man rapped smartly at the door, and Edith rose quickly from her knees before he entered with the tea.
Her father supposed, of course, that she was in bed, and she dreaded to bring him downstairs for fear of his anger; still there was no help for it and she rapped smartly at the side door.
A small man in civilian dress walked smartly to the land.
The string was pulled through his fingers so smartly that it made them burn, and was whisked out of sight in the wind and the spray.
Now and then the scallawag sailors would force them upon all fours, and sitting astride their backs would compel them to creep about the deck, pretending to be horses, while Condent whipped them smartly with the rope's end.
But for answer he took up his riding-whip and laid it about their shoulders so smartly that they fled from the hall shrieking and cursing him.
All these people were decently dressed; the men generally in dark clothes, not so smartly as Americans on a festal day, but so as not to be greatly different as regards dress.
The coachman was smartlydressed in the Queen's scarlet, and was a very pleasant and affable personage, conducting himself towards the passengers with courteous authority.
By day you will sometimes see smartly kept hansoms, well-groomed horses, and drivers in neat livery.
Perhaps the passing of a smartly groomed saddle-horse was responsible.
When he had shaken himself free and regained his legs, he trotted smartly off in the direction of his mother's cottage; but over his shoulder he discharged at me both imprecation and deprecation, menace mixed up with an under-current of tears.
Jarwin, feeling ashamed to appear in so very light a costume before a lady, turned smartly round and walked away.
So that's settled," continued Jarwin, getting up and walking smartly back to his hut with the air of a man who has a purpose in view.
So a servant was sent to buy that one: silver, ringed with blue, and smartly it twirled about in the servant's hands as he stood a moment to pay the vendor.
I will beat you, Minna," cries Stella, Hitting her hoop smartly with her stick.
And rings of every size Turned smartly round like hoops before her eyes, Amethyst-flamed or ruby-girdled, jarred To spokes and flashing triangles, and starred Like rockets bursting on a festal day.
Perhaps the pressure was slightly returned; for the gallant colonel was impelled to inflate his chest, and trip away as smartly as his stubby-toed, high-heeled boots would permit.
I drew my hand smartly back, and, as I did so, distinctly heard the loud and angry rustling of leaves.
A second later and I felt them smartly transferred to my long, curly hair.
None the less, it was disconcerting to know that mist and storm lay hiding within possible reach, and I walked on smartly for a sight of Tom Bassett's cottage and the lights of the Manor House in the valley a short mile beyond.
A guard was now set, and the sailors turned to, handing the boxes smartlyout of the boats, and ranging them on terra firma; the shore party began conveying them from the jetty into the office.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smartly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
