O, what inventions, crafts and wiles Is there contained within this head!I know that he is within few miles, Which of the same is throughly sped.O, it was all my study day and night Cunningly to bring this matter to pass: In all the earth there is no wight, But I can make to cry alas.…Cited from Old English Plays, Vol. II, by Dodsley
But how a Prince may throughly understand his servant, here is the way that never fails.Cited from Machiavelli, Volume I, by Niccolo` Machiavelli
Now they are here together, I'll have this matter throughly debated.Cited from Fair Em, Shakespeare Apocrypha
In the reading of the Scriptures the word happily is sometimes used where the archaic word haply should be employed.In like manner the word thoroughly is substituted for the old form throughly.…Cited from Slips of Speech, by John H. Bechtel
I am glad he is so quiet: if he had been throughly moved, you should have heard him so loud and so melancholy.Cited from The Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare
My point and period will be throughly wrought Or well or ill, as this day's battle's fought.Cited from Shakespearean Tragedy, by A. C. Bradley
From Northumberland he entered into Scotland, having many ships and a great host with him.He went about the length and breadth of the land, and purged it throughly in every part.Such folk as were oppressed of their neighbours he confirmed in their rights.…Cited from Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut, by Wace
My point and period will be throughly wrought, Or well or ill, as this day's battle's fought.Cited from King Lear, by William Shakespeare
And, minion, otherwise it cannot be But you are an agent in this treachery.I will revenge it throughly on you both.…Cited from Fair Em, Shakespeare Apocrypha
Famous in his lifetime as one of his country's leading organists and choirmasters, he composed almost exclusively for the Church of England, which continues to cherish his memory.His better-known anthems include Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace and Wash me throughly.He also wrote several rather late examples of verse anthems, which contrast unison and contrapuntal sections with smaller, more intimate passages for solo voice or voices.…
To find out, and set to thyself some certain way and method of contemplation, whereby thou mayest clearly discern and represent unto thyself, the mutual change of all things, the one into the other.Bear it in thy mind evermore, and see that thou be throughly well exercised in this particular.For there is not anything more effectual to beget true magnanimity.…Cited from Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
On his arrival he called his countrymen together and learned their grievances.As soon as he had throughly posted himself on the subject he went off to the contractors, and had a long interview with them.They on their side stated that they had built the house because they thought it would be pleasanter for the men to live nearer their work, but they denied having given orders that the men must live in it.…Cited from The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 53, November 11, 1897, by Various
He simply knew vaguely that he was a brute, that he felt like a brute, and that he did not know how to stop being a brute.His wife knew that he was a brute, and at the same time she felt throughly convinced that she was a suffering martyr.He was dreading to come home and she was dreading to have him come home -- and there they were in a continuous nightmare.…Cited from Nerves and Common Sense, by Annie Payson Call
Then set it by, till it be throughly cold, and barrel it up, and keep it till it be ripe.Cited from The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened, by Kenelm Digby
If you are without them to-day, to-morrow they will be around you.Meet them at the threshold with drastic laws, throughly enforced; for no half way measures will answer.…Cited from Our Vanishing Wild Life, by William T. Hornaday
No sportsman needs a larger bag than the revised schedule; and commercialists should not be allowed to kill big game anywhere, at any time.Let us bear in mind the fact that Alaska is being throughly "opened up" to the Man with a Gun.…Cited from Our Vanishing Wild Life, by William T. Hornaday
Therefore I would wish you throughly to aduise your selues, whether you be able to indure it or no.Vnto whom I answered: I hope by Gods help that we shalbe able to brooke that which other men can indure.…Cited from Principal Navigations, V2, by Richard Hakluyt
There were in that city where I was, twentie barges at the least of these aforesayd crowes.I went almost euery day to see them, yet could I neuer be throughly satisfyed to see so strange a kind of fishing.…Cited from Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, Vol. 11, by Richard Hakluyt
And as God will see us in this posture, before He reveal to us the model and platform of reformation; so also, till we be in such a posture of deep humiliation, for our former abominations, we shall never be stedfast and faithful in the covenant of God.Till our hearts be throughly broken for covenant-breach, we will not pass much for breaking covenant, upon every fresh temptation.Yea, till that time we be humbled, not for a day only, and so forth: but unless we labour to maintain an habitual frame of godly sorrow upon our hearts for our covenant-violations, shall we ever be to purpose conscientious of our covenant?…Cited from The Covenants And The Covenanters, by Various
Mr. Howard, during our stay in Kansas, was not in very good health, but he never relaxed in his labor until the testimony closed.He was a man of marked ability, a good lawyer, conservative in all his ideas and tendencies, and throughly fair and impartial.At his request I accompanied him, with our excellent corps of assistants, to his home in Detroit, where his health so failed that he was confined to his bed for a week.…Cited from Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet, Sherman