A conscientious monarch who has not the happiness, and I use the word designedly, the happiness to have. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son.] Reference
Sad to state, our ambulances were designedly fired upon. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
That I was kept designedly in the dark both by him and you. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
The metre is changed designedly to agree with the original. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
I frequently and designedly put myself in the way of trial. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832] Reference
It must not appear as though the subject was designedly chosen. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
As she spoke, she designedly stepped in and searched about for her. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
This was surely a rash action, but I did not designedly turn pirate. 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
"O-mi-to-fu! desist at once from asking me!" she designedly exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
This speech of John's, if it were uttered designedly, was a masterpiece. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
Infunyana very well, but nevertheless designedly Birnier ignored him in return. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
"That is to say, inadvertently," added Fritz; "designedly is out of the question.". From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
Had he left it designedly, now that he had taken her completely into his confidence?. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
The gable itself is designedly made to resemble one of the gables of the west front. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See] Reference
Constitution, avoiding designedly the odious word slave, is a chart and covenant of freedom. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He crouched, not designedly, but as if an involuntary action of the muscles drew him together. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
He pursued a policy which, designedly or undesignedly, was calculated to bring our rule to an end. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Of his language it has already been said that he designedly uses the archaic, or that of Chaucer; or, as. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
Whether he did this designedly, or instinctively, the effect is as happy as the design (if design) was bold. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
Chia Se presently shuffled his feet, while he designedly adjusted his dress and looked at the rays of the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
He left them — designedly, it would seem — to cut one another's throats, and despised them for their barbarism. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
Alfred had designedly and against his pride ordered Eli's name placed on the bills to relieve himself of all responsibility and worry. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
How designedly it was written around Adrienne de Gervais -- calculated to give every possible opportunity to a fine emotional actress!. From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Folly] Reference
Inefficient himself, and perhaps designedly so, his policy could not, with safety to his own reputation, allow of efficiency elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
They passed several cottages of designedly rustic appearance and buried, as it were, amid a wealth of tree foliage and wild entanglements of shrubbery. From Wordnik.com. [Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation] Reference
There are nations, even at the present day, which designedly keep the people in ignorance, for fear that they will know their rights and demand justice. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
The people, designedly chained to the basest superstitions and following the example of their leaders, have cast aside the restraints of chastity and morality. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
Heth's and Wilcox's divisions, such part of them as were not captured, were cut off from town, either designedly on their part or because they could not help it. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The sounds advanced on one side, though still so faint and designedly smothered we could distinguish nothing to lead us to know whether friends or foes were coming. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
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