Example Sentences

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She was handsome, strikingly, distinguishedly handsome, he said to himself; but there was something lacking.

From The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories by Graham, Margaret Collier

It was a happy party, over which this remarkably handsome, and now distinguishedly fashionable milliner, and dignified-looking lady presided.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

Every testimony points to the fact that the crisis was as purely a monetary or currency crisis, as later crises have been distinguishedly credit crises.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur

It was in the days of Rodney's war, when the PROTHEE, we read, captured two large privateers to windward of Barbadoes, and was 'materially and distinguishedly engaged' in both the actions with De Grasse.

From Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Stevenson, Robert Louis

It was in the days of Rodney’s war, when the Proth�e, we read, captured two large privateers to windward of Barbadoes, and was “materially and distinguishedly engaged” in both the actions with De Grasse.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis