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    Use "tolerably" in a sentence

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    tolerably


    1. Once you get used to the Forward Bend and can do it tolerably well, proceed as follows which incorporates the Yoga breathing as well


    2. have your work tolerably executed, it must be done in the suburbs, where the workmen,


    3. To feed well, old Cato said, as we are told by Cicero, was the first and most profitable thing in the management of a private estate ; to feed tolerably well, the second ; and to feed ill, the third


    4. But we shall find this to have been the case of almost all nations, in all tolerably quiet and peaceable times, even of those who have not enjoyed the most prudent and parsimonious governments


    5. Under the government even of the Portuguese, however, those islands are said to have been tolerably well inhabited


    6. It was, therefore, tolerably well exercised, and tolerably well disciplined


    7. As it is only by means of a well regulated standing army, that a civilized country can be defended, so it is only by means of it that a barbarous country can be suddenly and tolerably civilized


    8. Though it should be true, therefore, what I apprehend is not a little doubtful, that in some parts of Asia this department of the public police is very properly managed by the executive power, there is not the least probability that, during the present state of things, it could be tolerably managed by that power in any part of Europe


    9. If he is obliged, therefore, to give a certain number of lectures, these motives alone, without any other interest, might dispose him to take some pains to give tolerably good ones


    10. On Wednesday Aunt Martha was suddenly seized with a recurring and mysterious ailment which she always called "the misery," and which was tolerably certain to attack her at the most inconvenient times

    11. He had been tolerably sure she cared for him


    12. Without Him you may live tolerably: without Him you will never comfortably die


    13. She had been burdened by the officer for a long winter in the north of the country, and Andrei and I would be tolerably well off for a while, at least


    14. The night was good to this point he was merry and actually tolerably funny, although the older Byron could watch himself with no more than violent cringes


    15. It follows as a natural corollary from their general idea that this school of psychologers insists on attaching to the Hebrew word Sheol (lwaç) and to the Greek word Hades (AiJdhv) invariably the meaning of the Grave, a tolerably stout assertion standing here in the place of evidence


    16. The curate made them get ready such fare as there was in the inn, and the landlord, in hope of better payment, served them up a tolerably good dinner


    17. And so saying, he seized the staff he had driven into the ground, and leaving one half of it fixed there, showed it to be a sheath that concealed a tolerably long rapier; and, what may be called its hilt being planted in the ground, he swiftly, coolly, and deliberately threw himself upon it, and in an instant the bloody point and half the steel blade appeared at his back, the unhappy man falling to the earth bathed in his blood, and transfixed by his own weapon


    18. At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed


    19. She might in time regain tranquillity; but he, what had he to look forward to? Could he ever be tolerably happy with Lucy Steele; could he, were his affection for herself out of the question, with his integrity, his delicacy, and well-informed mind, be satisfied with a wife like her--illiterate, artful, and selfish?


    20. Elinor was soon called to the card-table by the conclusion of the first rubber, and the confidential discourse of the two ladies was therefore at an end, to which both of them submitted without any reluctance, for nothing had been said on either side to make them dislike each other less than they had done before; and Elinor sat down to the card table with the melancholy persuasion that Edward was not only without affection for the person who was to be his wife; but that he had not even the chance of being tolerably happy in marriage, which sincere affection on her side would have given, for self-interest alone could induce a woman to keep a man to an engagement, of which she seemed so thoroughly aware that he was weary

    21. Very early in April, and tolerably early in the day, the two parties from Hanover Square and Berkeley Street set out from their respective homes, to meet, by appointment, on the road


    22. "Oh, she is naughty!" I cried, perceiving the master to be tolerably sober


    23. The stolidity with which I received these instructions was, no doubt, rather exasperating: for they were delivered in perfect sincerity; but I believed a person who could plan the turning of her fits of passion to account, beforehand, might, by exerting her will, manage to control herself tolerably, even while under their influence; and I did not wish to


    24. He's tolerably well, I think, though his studies occupy him rather more than they ought: he is continually among his books, since he has no other society


    25. He perceives his delicate constitution, and the necessity of treating him tolerably


    26. He is not tolerably well, as he told me to tell papa; but he's better, very likely


    27. That is tolerably clear


    28. effect: which was, that, through mere fatigue, I slept tolerably well till


    29. tolerably white; he mounted them round his haps, and coming out with


    30. Here, on the road, as the tumult of my senses was tolerably composed,

    31. He was conducted to a tolerably neat chamber, but grated and barred, and its appearance, therefore, did not greatly alarm him; besides, the words of Villefort, who seemed to interest himself so much, resounded still in his ears like a promise of freedom


    32. In the meanwhile the hours passed, if not rapidly, at least tolerably


    33. " The young man took the helm, felt to see if the vessel answered the rudder promptly and seeing that, without being a first-rate sailer, she yet was tolerably obedient,—


    34. He had preserved a tolerably good remembrance of what the youth had been, and was now to find out what the man had become


    35. I endured the rain during the day, and the cold during the night tolerably well, but the third morning my horse died of cold


    36. which is tolerably ancient


    37. He entered with a tolerably dignified step, and some little haste


    38. I am rather bare here, but I hope you'll be able to make out tolerably well till Monday


    39. He wore trousers of blue cloth, boots tolerably clean, but not of the brightest polish, and a little too thick in the soles, buckskin gloves, a hat somewhat resembling in shape those usually worn by the gendarmes, and a black cravat striped with white, which, if the proprietor had not worn it of his own free will, might have passed for a halter, so much did it resemble one


    40. The baroness had been tolerably composed until the name of Villefort had been pronounced; but then she became pale, and, rising, as if touched by a spring, she stretched out her hands as though conjuring an apparition; she then took two or three steps towards her husband, as though to tear the secret from him, of which he was ignorant, or which he withheld from some odious calculation,—odious, as all his calculations were

    41. "Antoinette is very well," he said, "and Madeleine tolerably so


    42. Besides, what is required of a young man in Paris? To speak its language tolerably, to make a good appearance, to be a good gamester, and to pay in cash


    43. Cavalcanti, dressed in black, like one of Goethe's heroes, with varnished shoes and white silk open-worked stockings, passed a white and tolerably nice-looking hand through his light hair, and so displayed a sparkling diamond, that in spite of Monte Cristo's advice the vain young man had been unable to resist putting on his little finger


    44. In an adjoining room Andrea saw also a tolerably clean table prepared for two, two bottles of wine sealed, the one with green, the other with yellow, a supply of brandy in a decanter, and a measure of fruit in a cabbage-leaf, cleverly arranged on an earthenware plate


    45. secretary half forced—it is tolerably evident"—"A pane of glass out," continued the count, "a dark lantern, a bunch of false keys, a


    46. And there he was at the end of his tether after having often painted the town tolerably pink without a beggarly stiver


    47. During the daytime Valentine's perceptions remained tolerably clear, owing to the constant presence of M


    48. On the other side of the house old Roger Chillingworth arranged his study and laboratory; not such as a modern man of science would reckon even tolerably complete, but provided with a distilling apparatus, and the means of compounding drugs and chemicals, which the practised alchemist knew well how to turn to purpose


    49. His visits were tolerably regular, though occasionally he appeared a little before or after his time, but generally, both in summer and winter, he took possession of his apartment about four o'clock, though he never spent the night there


    50. Andrea had formed a plan which was tolerably clever



























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    Synonyms for "tolerably"

    acceptably so-so tolerably fairly quite amply abundantly reasonably just enough

    "tolerably" definitions

    in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner