The poet, that beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet
excellently well: It is a pleasure, to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure, to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth
Next to the commonalty of husbandmen is one of shepherds and herdsmen; for they have many things in common with them, and, by their way of life, are
excellently qualified to make good soldiers, stout in body, and able to continue in the open air all night.
I had heard of jerking beef on the plains, and our seal-meat, cut in thin strips and hung in the smoke, cured
excellently.
The soldiers wore rock-colored uniforms and were
excellently drilled.
Among the Riverboro girls of her own age was a certain
excellently named Minnie Smellie, who was anything but a general favorite.
That was Adam's wise resolution, and it throve
excellently for the first two or three weeks on the nourishment it got from the remembrance of Dinah's confession that Sunday afternoon.
The varieties in the fitting-up of the rooms, where the common necessaries provided by the owner, in the common indifferent plight, were contrasted with some few articles of a rare species of wood,
excellently worked up, and with something curious and valuable from all the distant countries Captain Harville had visited, were more than amusing to Anne; connected as it all was with his profession, the fruit of its labours, the effect of its influence on his habits, the picture of repose and domestic happiness it presented, made it to her a something more, or less, than gratification.
Hesho seems
excellently disposed towards us, and, after all, I should have thought his word would have had more weight in Tokio than the word of a young man who is new to diplomacy, and whose claims to distinction seem to rest rather upon his soldiering and the fact that he is a cousin of the Emperor.
Then, wishing to secure a brilliant position in high society, he learnt to dance
excellently and very soon was invited to all the balls in the best circles, and to some of their evening gatherings.
Coffee, without cream or milk, he had twice a day, in the evening substituting tea; but both coffee and tea were
excellently cooked.
She was, moreover,
excellently well skilled in the doctrine of amour, and knew better than anybody who and who were together; a knowledge which she the more easily attained, as her pursuit of it was never diverted by any affairs of her own; for either she had no inclinations, or they had never been solicited; which last is indeed very probable; for her masculine person, which was near six foot high, added to her manner and learning, possibly prevented the other sex from regarding her, notwithstanding her petticoats, in the light of a woman.
They got on
excellently, for Amy's chief care was soon set at rest by learning that the gentleman would leave first, and she was chatting away in a peculiarly lofty strain, when the old lady got out.
