They were not wholly a thing of the past when we had here our first gardens, and they have had a distinct influence on garden laying-out till our own day.
Another thinks that Mignonette has a doggy smell, as have several flowers; this is notwholly to their disparagement.
This does not come wholly from association, as many fancy, but from an inherent quality of the flower itself.
Notwithstanding all these tributes to sweet scents and to the sense of smell, it is not deemed, save in poetry, wholly meet to dwell much on smells, even pleasant ones.
I have ever found the scent of Lilacs somewhat imperfect, not well rounded, not wholly satisfying; but one of my friends can never find in a bunch of our spring Lilacs any odor save that of illuminating gas.
Many who taste and like the result know not the old-fashioned materials used to produce that flavor, and "of the younger sort" the names even are wholly unrecognized.
I know a large orchard in Narragansett from which grass has wholly vanished; it has been crowded out by the ugly little plant, which has even invaded the adjoining woods.
Apparently summer evenings were spent by the Derby household and their visitors wholly in the garden and summer-house.
His cure-all was a bitter tea decocted from leaves and stalks of this Eupatorium purpureum, and in token of his success the plant bears everywhere his name, but it is now wholly neglected by the simpler and herb-doctor.
The still-room was wholly devoted to storing these herbs and manufacturing their products.
It may be fairly urged that the greatest religious interest of mankind could not have been wholly ignored by one who passed his life in fulfilling the commands of an oracle, and who recognized a Divine plan in man and nature.
And death separates him from these corruptions, which in life he cannot wholly lay aside.
It was charged that they were worked hard, badly treated and deprived of all their wages except what was given them for rations and a scanty pittance, wholly insufficient to purchase necessary clothing and provide for their families.
When they arrived in the West Indies their circumstances would increase this hostility, alienate their affections and estrange them wholly from the United States.
We have now observed the Governor's Orders, in bringing the three other Christian Prisoners; and we trust the Affair of our Prisoners wholly to the Governor.
The Adirondacks formerly lived three-hundred Miles above Trois Rivieres, where now the Utawawas are situated; at that Time they employ'd themselves wholly in Hunting, and the Five Nations made planting of Corn their Business.
The Authority of these Rulers is gain'd by, and consists whollyin the Opinion the rest of the Nation have of their Wisdom and Integrity.
We agree however to this Proposition, and shall wholly stay away from Virginia: And this we do in Gratitude to Corlear, who has been at so great Pains to persuade you, great Governor of Virginia, to forget what is past.
He was interested in this strange freak of mine, and he could not wholly condemn it.
It was wholly unfurnished, except for two objects, an ancient hat-box and a still more ancient skin-trunk.
I was not considered in this arrangement, which was wholly matrimonial, but I was present, and the exercise made more impression upon me than it did upon either of the principal agents.
It was, perhaps, not wholly a coincidence that almost all those particular girls remained unmarried to the end of their lives.
My Father, by an indulgent act for the caprice of which I cannot wholly account, presently let in a flood of imaginative light which was certainly hostile to my heavenly calling.
Thereupon Miss Marks had a wild fit of hysterics, while I looked on, wholly unsympathetic and still deeply affronted.
He did not suspect that the chastisement had not been wholly efficacious, and he bore me no malice; so that after a while, I forgot and thus forgave him.
Within half an hour he returned, followed by the doctor, a well-meaning young fellow, fresh from college and wholly in earnest.
Then he recalled her as she came to him that September night, the letter fluttering in her hand, and it seemed to him that he was not wholly responsible--that something mightier than himself had manipulated their destinies.
Suspicions of the kind might not unnaturally be excited, and yet be wholly without foundation.
The influence of the Everlasting Gospel was not yet wholly exhausted.
Wigand Wirt did notwholly escape, though he does not seem to have been directly implicated in the fraud.
It is worthy of note that in the published sentence the Immaculate Conception was kept wholly out of sight.
What exists to that effect in our archives or elsewhere we wholly erase and pronounce to be of no validity against you.
The question turns wholly on the poverty of Christ and the heresy of John's definitions of the doctrine.
And Petray proceeded to read the document in which he had set forth Raby's case with such cunning adroitness, that black appeared white in his representations, and white wholly black.
My arrest was a wholly unjust one," he said bitterly.
She could not be wholly wrapped up in her housewifery.
His uncle was right, the mob had wholly changed, and by now believed that Raby had bought over the town for the Emperor.
She rarely even looked in a book, for the young matron was now wholly occupied with the things of the household.
They would not trust her wholly to the care of a hired nurse.
It will be wholly mine--something of his that will love me and cling to me although he scorns and despises me.
I never loved you so well as when I thought that you shared so wholly in my affection for my parent.
My mother thought me too young to marry then, and besides, she did not whollyapprove of my choice.
Puvis de Chavannes had, within the very precincts of the official salon, created an art based on something wholly distinct, alike from the photographic and frigid eclecticism of Cabanel and Bougereau and from the work of both Manet and Monet.
That mind, as we have seen, was neither wholly Christian or Pagan--though the untamed Pagan element in it was destined slowly to get the better of the more refined Christian side.
Whatever else destiny held in store for him, it was certain from the beginning that Paul Gauguin could never be wholly assimilated to the intellectual effort of the frivolous and fickle city of Paris.
In 1873 he married, thus saddling himself with a responsibility he was neverwholly to shake off.
Neither of these views is, however, wholly correct.
So horrible did he look, so utterly inhuman and wholly possessed of the devil, that Blair gasped at the sight.
He could not plead whollyguiltless in that respect.
They don't have the times they used to have, but they're not wholly cleared out yet in the outlying groups.
And Ha'o and his people meanwhile went on steadily replenishing their houses, and constructing the weapons without which they felt but half men and wholly insecure.
No single one of them but was ready to lay down his or her life in the cause that lay so close to their hearts, and they found therein reason, not for doubts or fears, but wholly of exaltation.
So I spent the evenings in my lonely room, and used the money I saved from gambling and drinking for the purchase of books, though the volumes were wholly different in character from those I had inherited from my dear father.
I don't know why I am saying this to you; I see by your puzzled face that it is a language wholly unfamiliar.
But, like every reminder of our weaknesses and follies, it never wholly vanished.
Besides, I had made her forever my foe by remaining whollyindifferent to her charms.
My hair was now parted wholly on the left side, and no longer combed behind my ears.
When the Sunday had come and I heard the bells ring and the hymn was sung, I was obliged to drink a glass of the wine kept in the vestry for the communion service, in order to control the wholly unprecedented weakness that assailed me.
The lower story of the back building seemed to be wholly occupied by stables and coach-houses.
But we will not take up the thread again until after the earth has closed over the little coffin, which was wholly concealed under the garlands bestowed by the actors and some kind people among the inhabitants of the little town.
But, even then, I could not wholly conquer my secret reluctance.
For I must commence my letter by apologizing for an offense committed more than a year ago, when I had the honor of making your acquaintance, if this word can be applied to a meeting in which both persons remained wholly unknown to each other.
The beautiful oval face, however, was wholly unchanged, save for an expression of cheerfulness which had been alien to it during the last period of our companionship.
Without pronouncing positively upon the differences between individuals, Mill observes that, at any rate, the enormous difference between classes of men is wholly due to education.
Of all delusions on the subject, replies a very able and severe critic,[336] there is none greater than the belief that it was 'wholly abstract and unpractical.
The means, he argues, by which the 'grand objects of desire may be attained, depend almost wholly upon the political machine.
They regarded the proposal that children should be partly taught by other children instead of being wholly taught by adults as a kind of scientific discovery which would enormously simplify and cheapen education.
Fear had not as yet been wholly evaporated from his heart by the fire of caresses, and so every time people appeared, or approached him, he hid himself expecting a beating.
Let it not be supposed that the indiscriminate pasturing of an orchard is advocated; on the contrary, it is wholly deprecated, except as will be indicated below.
When these eggs hatch, the brood consists wholly of females, which are wingless, and do not lay eggs, but are viviparous and produce from fifteen to twenty young lice in the course of a day.
Various remedies have been suggested for these maladies, all of which are more or less unsatisfactory, because from our ignorance of the causes of the troubles; these applications are wholly empirical.
Fitch's assertion, that some specimens are wholly free from larvae of any kind when cut into.
O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.
This obvious thing was wholly a mystery to both parents; the mother was nonplussed, failed to trace and connect; and the father regarded his son as a stubborn and mysterious fool, an impression not effaced as the years went by.
She was wholly intent upon fulfilling the sudden purpose that brought her, and she was no more self-conscious than she was finely intelligent.
The poor woman blundered on, wholly unaware of what she had confessed.
Such a thing was whollyunknown to him; there had been no music in his meager life.
These were turbulent days in the New House, but Bibbs had no part whatever in the turbulence--he seemed an absent-minded stranger, present by accident and notwholly aware that he was present.
What intelligence she had was given almost wholly to comprehending and serving those two, and except in the presence of one of them she was nearly always absent-minded.
She did not hesitate--her heart was hot with the old sore, and she believed wholly in the justice of her cause and in the truth of what she was going to say.
She (womanlike) were fain Not to bewholly free, but wear a chosen chain.
Nor seemed the Virgin Mother whollyfreed From taint of ill if born in frail estate, But shone the seraphs' queen and soared immaculate.
And you first, most learned scholar, Whom I 'm proud to sit beside, Speak: does wisdom sans a dollar Leave you wholly satisfied?
Ruth, whose self-possession never wholly deserted her, had reached a depth of exhausted stupor, in which the mind is perfectly oblivious of the impression it is producing on others.
We have seen one code and the other of conflicting and wholly selfish game laws passed, and seen them mocked at and forgotten, seen them all fail, as we all know.
The spread of this pest has been retarded, but the gypsy moth never will be wholly stamped out.
And yet, the game of North America does not belong wholly and exclusively to the men who kill!
We need to know how much destruction is wrought by influences wholly beyond the control of man, and a few cases must be cited.
The Dutcher law has caused the plumage of wild birds almost wholly to disappear from the State of New York!
And if even Africa will soon be overrun, if even Africa soon will be shot out, what hope is there for the game of the wholly accessible North American continent?
Montana's bag-limits are not wholly bad; but the grizzly bear has almost been exterminated, save in the Yellowstone Park.
The amount of net profit that can be realized depends wholly upon the business acumen and judgment displayed in the management of the flock.
It will be noticed that the breast of the grebe has almost wholly disappeared from the feather market and from women's hats.
Columbia should give the services of one man wholly to this cause.
To you, most noble emperor, her strong passion Stands not excused, but wholly justified.
I should not have troubled myself thus far with French poets, but that I find our Chedreux critics wholly form their judgments by them.
Else had I never dared to offend his ears With what the last necessity has urged On my forsaken mistress; yet I must not Presume to say, her heart is wholly altered.
That the Italians have not made a greater use of it is due, no doubt, to the wholly different conditions under which they are fighting.
My ioints trembled & quakt with attending them, my haire stood vpright, & my hart was turned wholly to fire.
He was a scholar and a university man of considerable attainments, but he was wholly without taste, and he concentrated into vinegar a temper which must always have had a tendency to be sour.
In this same year, 1593, Nash produced the only play which has come down to us as wholly composed by him, the comedy of "Summer's Last Will and Testament.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wholly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
