The play is "got up," as we managers call it, capitally. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841] Reference
'I think I managed that capitally,' said Freda to Frisk?. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
You have worked in capitally Allen's admirable researches. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
I had hitherto said nothing, though I was capitally entertained. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
These were the last of the regicides that were punished capitally. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 348, December 27, 1828] Reference
This game may be played capitally with bean bags instead of sticks. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
Bailey, there being twenty-two men and seven women capitally convicted. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
His "Interior of a Country Stable" is capitally painted, even to the ducks. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Claude and J. Lewis Brown render so capitally; nor of the portraits of Pérignon. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Common, for which they were tried the next sessions, and both capitally convicted. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
For this offence, chiefly on the oath of Neeves, they were all capitally convicted. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
The quest prospered capitally until he stuck hopelessly at the missing St. Michael. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
The home scenes in which these little Peppers are engaged are capitally described. From Wordnik.com. [Lilith The Legend of the First Woman] Reference
Arthur's miserly employer is very good, and his shrewd friend Cheek is capitally drawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference
The stories are capitally told, and in the Captain's Story, the Lawyer's Story, the Doctor's. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
'I assure you I can manage capitally, and will send back the horses, and a message to papa.'. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
"I must keep this," he said, "in my Surgery; it'll do capitally to give an edge to a lesson.". From Wordnik.com. [True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best] Reference
And he mimics operatic singers capitally, with sonorous words in mock Italian basso recitative. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Aubrey, Jimmie, and Sir Wemyss got on capitally from the start, for before they came Aubrey said. From Wordnik.com. [At Home with the Jardines] Reference
When Margaret could venture to leave drawing materials within his reach, he began to draw capitally. From Wordnik.com. [The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina] Reference
Pompilard, a capitally drawn figure, many New-Yorkers will recognize an original, faithfully limned. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
He was capitally convicted and ordered to be executed near the place where the robbery was committed. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference
The piece is capitally played and sung all round; and marvellous is Miss VICTOR as the Spanish mother. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891] Reference
The markets are capitally supplied, and the prices are generally about one-third of those of New York. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference
Light red has the good properties common to ochres, dries capitally, and furnishes an excellent crayon. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
It washes and works capitally in water, and dries quickly in oil, in which it is employed as a siccative. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
"A mansion you would not care to inhabit, I expect; but it will do capitally for Sally and me," said Paul. From Wordnik.com. [The Village by the River] Reference
Where mounted objects are not at hand, reference may be made to the capitally executed plates in that work. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887] Reference
The beggar who is receiving alms is capitally understood, and carries the light broadly through the picture. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
No less than fifty-nine were capitally convicted, and twenty were executed: the rest were transported for life. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
The incident illustrates capitally the combination of keenness and patience that goes to make the collector's eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
They tell me she has at least a thousand a-year in her own right (whatever that may be), which would do capitally. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 17, 1892] Reference
"Little foxes," said the old man, "have nice skins that do capitally for collars and trimmings, and I want to skin you!". From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
Certainly; for we have no laws resembling those Athenian laws, which made it capitally punishable to propose their repeal. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference
"Indeed, one had rather, much rather, that twenty guilty persons should escape than one innocent person suffer capitally.". From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
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