Having
vastly delighted the assembly, he sat down amidst universal applause.
and you PRETENDED, at least, to be
vastly pleased with your acquisition.
She talks
vastly well; I am afraid of being ungenerous, or I should say, TOO well to feel so very deeply; but I will not look for her faults; she may be Reginald's wife!
Despite her clear sight of her problem of keeping Billy a lover, and despite the considerable knowledge and experience arrayed before her mental vision, Mercedes Higgins had spread before her a
vastly wider panorama.
If very little came to me in those days from books, on the other hand my acquaintance with the drama
vastly enlarged itself.
This
vastly amused the spectators, and even broke down their studied and courtly gravity and surprised them into laughter.
As to those just causes of war which proceed from direct and unlawful violence, it appears equally clear to me that one good national government affords
vastly more security against dangers of that sort than can be derived from any other quarter.
Both of Mars' moons are
vastly nearer her than is our moon to Earth; the nearer moon being but about five thousand miles distant, while the further is but little more than fourteen thousand miles away, against the nearly one-quarter million miles which separate us from our moon.
I do not pretend to say the young man is without faults; but they are all the faults of wildness and of youth; faults which he may, nay, which I am certain he will, relinquish, and, if he should not, they are
vastly overbalanced by one of the most humane, tender, honest hearts that ever man was blest with."
However, that haven of bliss must not be entered till I had exchanged my miry boots for a clean pair of shoes, and my rough surtout for a respectable coat, and made myself generally presentable before decent society; for my mother, with all her kindness, was
vastly particular on certain points.
So far, the financial situation was no improvement over the one he had left in New Orleans, but of course the prospects were
vastly better.
This mode has, in such cases,
vastly the advantage of elections by the people in their collective capacity, where the activity of party zeal, taking the advantage of the supineness, the ignorance, and the hopes and fears of the unwary and interested, often places men in office by the votes of a small proportion of the electors.