Example Sentences

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"Weep, weep," he sings to her - but the pathos in his voice makes clear that, he, too, is innerly in tears.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2011

He was so anxious that we should see what he meant, and we were so polite and innerly so blank.

From The Heart's Country by Vorse, Mary Heaton

This might have beene called The Sectour in the Periphery, to wit, comprehended innerly of two right lines joyntly bounded in the periphery; as here aei.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

Du, Eberle aus Freiburg,     Du bist ein Musikant, Top-sawyer on de counterpoint     Und buster in discant, To dee de soul of musik     All innerly ish known, Du canst mit might fullenden     De art of orgel-ton.

From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Here is a cognizance of law and deference before its claims that is curiously composite, if not complex, or even innerly contraposed.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.