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• He took me wholly by surprise. (4)
• She would then be wholly his own. (10)
• To gain influence, be wholly bad. (16)
• Wholly Cambrian Fleetwood was not. (10)
• Victor took the blame wholly upon himself. (10)
• The reptile itself was wholly concealed by them. (1)
• It was wholly illegal, but the detectives were human. (9)
• It is not a question of intellect, or not wholly that. (9)
• I reassured my undiscerning friend partly, not wholly. (10)
• To Kitty, however, it does not seem so wholly unexpected. (4)
• He had, in fact, been wholly unsuspicious of his own influence. (4)
• But that we are wholly grateful to him, is a distinct conclusion. (10)
• In the mean time the average of criticism is not wholly bad with us. (9)
• If there was any drama at all it was wholly in his own consciousness. (9)
• Perhaps it would have been as well if he had left it wholly to myself. (4)
• She dozed on the edge of sleep, unable to yield herself to it wholly. (10)
• Though she might not have been wholly guilty, she had bitterly offended. (10)
• When that wretched event takes place, Frederica must belong wholly to us. (4)
• It is wholly unimportant who marries who, or whether anybody marries at all. (9)
• I do not pretend that the spell I was under was wholly of a moral or social texture. (9)
• This is all the more remarkable when we consider that he is almost wholly self-taught. (3)
• It was the first day for many, many weeks, in which the families had been wholly divided. (4)
• Perhaps in your heart you have already cast me off and separated yourself from me wholly. (12)
• The royal mountain lifted its graceful mass beside them, and hid the city wholly from sight. (9)
• He was wholly undramatic in the actuation of the characters which he imagined so dramatically. (9)
• Its return blow is serious; it would be fatal, could readers turn away wholly from criticism. (16)
• They were then beginning very early careers of distinction which have not been wholly divided. (9)
• Almost wholly English, he is yet our earliest classic, still loved in the Old Home and the New. (14)
• He appealed to her pity, her sense of honesty, to some not wholly buried spark of piety within her. (12)
• Saying which, Edward shut his teeth, and talked for two or three hot minutes wholly with his fists. (10)
• Saying which, Edward shut his teeth, and talked for two or three hot minutes wholly with his fists. (22)
• She was beautiful, wholly woman, and yet to her husband waiting there she seemed to be his no longer. (13)
• Why could he not be wholly true to her who was and always had been wholly true to him? (8)
• There was just then the interest of a not wholly generous surprise at American things among the English. (9)
• Cherished, trained, and purified, she is then partly worthy the divine mate who is to make her wholly so. (10)
• Yet he was unwilling to allow himself to be governed in such a matter wholly by financial considerations. (14)
• For her it is all future, and she cannot give herself wholly up to any present moment of it, as a man does. (9)
• They show an evident striving after musical grandeur, but are not wholly successful in attaining that effect. (3)
• Those who believed in her wholly declared that she really crossed his plans and only feigned to be his tool. (12)
• Life had not used them ill in this time, and the fairish treatment they had received was not wholly unmerited. (9)
• He added that Mr. Bennet seemed wholly disinclined at present to leave London and promised to write again very soon. (4)
• His musical education was wholly acquired in Boston, his leading teachers having been Stephen A. Emery and B. J. Lang. (3)
• On the other hand, he foresaw the closest of personal reasons for hesitating to be in agreement with the lady wholly. (10)
• She did not wholly understand the sense of his words, but she thrust her head far forward, and listened breathlessly. (12)
• When he accomplished this, it seemed as if he had contrived it all himself, but perhaps he had not wholly contrived it. (9)
• Without appearing to hear her, he walked to the window, fidgeted about, hummed a tune, and seemed wholly self-occupied. (4)
• Had she lived she would have given stability to the throne of her husband, over whom her influence was wholly for good. (14)
• In one house, perhaps, twoscore families herd together; and, perhaps, not one of them is wholly out of the reach of want. (2)
• A little sensation, almost a murmur, not wholly of assent, went round that circle which had so nearly voted Alice a saint. (9)
• Fervently they rallied at his command, never doubting but that they would sweep Wolfe and his men wholly from the heights. (19)
• From time to time she looked up from this labor, and scanned the beautiful bay, which they had almost wholly to themselves. (9)
• You will find, whenever the subject becomes freed from its present restraints, that it did not take her wholly by surprize. (4)
• She merited the distinction by the art which still lingered, deeply embedded in her massive balk, but never wholly obscured. (9)
• It came wholly through the suddenness of the recollection, that the family-seat of one among the friends was near the Wells. (10)
• The command of this force was given to General Braddock, a stern and peppery old soldier, wholly ignorant of Indian warfare. (19)
• Mrs. Kenton smiled rather bitterly, in recognition of the fact that the performance of their common duty must fall wholly to her. (9)
• My English reading was almost wholly in the Tauchnitz editions, for otherwise English books were not easily come at then and there. (9)
• Not to be wholly balked of blood, they fell upon the Algonquins, who were bringing furs to Quebec, slaughtering them without mercy. (19)
• His nostrils, as it seemed to Swithin, had distended in an unpleasant fashion; and a wholly unnecessary raucousness invaded his voice. (8)
• Of late she had not seemed wholly happy, and he supposed that there were money troubles in the household which would now be relieved. (13)
• He did not delay much over the economic aspects of the matter, but based his attacks almost wholly upon the eternal principles of Freedom. (14)
• In face they were commonplace, with nothing but the American poetry of vivid purpose to light them up, where they did not wholly lack fire. (9)
• We had undertaken a preposterous thing in befriending her as we had done, and our course in bringing Kendricks in was wholly unjustifiable. (9)
• His navigation was fatally at fault; he wholly missed his intended destination, the mouth of the Mississippi, sailing hundreds of miles beyond. (19)
• It is falsely principled because it is unprincipled, or without principles; and it is conditioned in evil because it is almost wholly anonymous. (9)
• The honor was wholly unexpected, and it brought Longfellow a distress which was chiefly for the gentleman who had procured him the impossible distinction. (9)
• Of what happened afterward at the table where the immense, the wholly innocent, the truly unimagined affront was offered, I have no longer the least remembrance. (9)

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