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Example sentences for "tolerably well"

  • I have also been about another chapter, and get on tolerably well; were I not so particular I should get on faster, but I wish that everything that I write in this next be first rate.

  • MY DEAR WIFE,—I just write you a line to tell you that I am tolerably well as I hope you are.

  • Louisa stopped short and coloured; the word keepsake recalled the box to her mind, and all the train of ideas which the Flora had banished.

  • English, he tolerably well understood; for the tone of contempt is sufficiently expressive in all languages.

  • The kitchen and two other rooms near it were yet covered in tolerably well; and a little thatch, she thought, would make them comfortable through the winter.

  • The site of the Thermae of Constantine, which are placed by the Notitia next to the Capitolium antiquum, is tolerably well defined by the notices of the Anonymous MS.

  • It has eleven fluted Corinthian marble columns supporting a tolerably well-preserved entablature, and plainly belonging to the longer side of a basilica or temple.

  • The interior is tolerably well preserved, and has a vaulted roof with coffers and reliefs in the form of trophies.

  • I saw your Mother the day before yesterday, and intend now frequently to pass half a day with her--she seem'd tolerably well.

  • When I have done this language, so as to be able to read it tolerably well, I shall set myself to get complete in Latin, and there my learning must stop.

  • A tolerably well-built mosque stands by the rivulet, near some gigantic sycamore trees.

  • The Mesfale is tolerably well built, and, like the Shebeyka, contains a few new houses; but that part of it which lies towards the great castle-hill is now almost entirely in ruins.

  • She was owned by a Miss Portlock, and had been treated "tolerably well," having had the privilege of hiring her time.

  • Tolerably well," said I, with indifference.

  • We wound along a narrow lane, tolerably well known, I imagine, to the gentlemen of the quill, and entered Holborn.

  • She was leaning, at the time I paid my respects to her, on the arm of an Italian count, tolerably well known at Paris.

  • The sheep, if tolerably well pastured, brings forth only a single lamb at a birth; but if half-starved and lean, the chances are that it may bring forth two or three.

  • It is tolerably well built, and its population, consisting chiefly of merchants, shopkeepers, and artificers, amounts to six or seven thousand souls.

  • While they were preparing, he shewed us a tract of land in front of his house, tolerably well cleared, where we took an hour’s shooting.

  • It is a tolerably well-built town, standing on a gentle elevation at the extremity of a small peninsula, and is walled entirely round.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after bathing; availed ourselves; breakfast dish; dead faint; foreign tongue; good girl; good judgment; hydrostatic pressure; less common; nearly equivalent; nine times; other men; perhaps half; shall seek; shod hoofs; silver chloride; thousand leagues; tolerably good; tolerably large; tolerably well; well skilled; went first; what does; you bet