Example Sentences

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I am able to do this zigzag line evenly, because I have got the use of the hand from practice; and the faster it is done, the evener it will be.

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by Ruskin, John

And all this while fought Palomides, Sir Bleoberis, Sir Safere, Sir Ector on foot; never were there four knights evener matched.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

I prefer the white pine, because it is less liable to gutter with the rain, and makes an evener roof.

From Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) by Strickland, Samuel

No doubt there is a few stitches that might be sot evener in the sampler, but the hull thing is a honor to our humanity and the world at large.

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta

I succeeded in splitting a green stick to hold the bolt of the evener just under its head while I heated its lower end in the fire and kept its head cool with snow.

From The Light in the Clearing by Bacheller, Irving