To speak
sensibly, I think assassins have been invented by fathers and mothers to frighten children who want to run away at night.
As the people grew more numerous, and their trade one with another increased, the want of current money was still more
sensibly felt.
"Thou art a great philosopher, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "thou speakest very
sensibly; I know not who taught thee.
The projectile sustained a certain shock, which was
sensibly felt in the interior.
But the incidents of his adventure grew
sensibly sharper and clearer under the attrition of thinking them over, and so he presently found himself leaning to the impression that the thing might not have been a dream, after all.
You yourself, sir, I am convinced, in my case, would have done the same: for none ever so
sensibly felt the misfortunes of others.
As soon as he had left the room the general merriment stopped and the guests began to converse
sensibly and quietly with one another.
She had been repeatedly very earnest in trying to get Anne included in the visit to London,
sensibly open to all the injustice and all the discredit of the selfish arrangements which shut her out, and on many lesser occasions had endeavoured to give Elizabeth the advantage of her own better judgement and experience; but always in vain: Elizabeth would go her own way; and never had she pursued it in more decided opposition to Lady Russell than in this selection of Mrs Clay; turning from the society of so deserving a sister, to bestow her affection and confidence on one who ought to have been nothing to her but the object of distant civility.
But the second son, too, said
sensibly enough: 'What I give you will be taken away from myself; be off!' and he left the little man standing and went on.
His absence is a void which is but too
sensibly felt to-day.
Who is likely to make suitable provisions for the public defense, as that body to which the guardianship of the public safety is confided; which, as the centre of information, will best understand the extent and urgency of the dangers that threaten; as the representative of the WHOLE, will feel itself most deeply interested in the preservation of every part; which, from the responsibility implied in the duty assigned to it, will be most
sensibly impressed with the necessity of proper exertions; and which, by the extension of its authority throughout the States, can alone establish uniformity and concert in the plans and measures by which the common safety is to be secured?
The consequence was that they were no longer taught to read, nor even to master Arithmetic enough to enable them to count the angles of their husband or children; and hence they
sensibly declined during each generation in intellectual power.