The nickname confessedly arose, so far as France was concerned, first in. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
"pillar and ground," and these substantives, the third, a much weaker one, and that an adjective, "confessedly," or "without controversy great," would not come. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Mr. M'Rae then stands here confessedly guilty of this conspiracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814] Reference
Unless they declared themselves a nation, they were confessedly rebels. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
Chinese are confessedly the workers in wood, iron, and everything else. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
From this, and the conversation ensuing, I learned that it was confessedly a. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
It is to be noted that the writer confessedly holds a brief for the servants. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Couples that are happy as compared with those that are confessedly unhappy, 131. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
Or might not poor relations, now confessedly nuisances, be made useful in this way?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Although Sloan and his supporters declared for Conkling, Alvord was confessedly the. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
This resolution was confessedly aimed at Mr. John Mitchell, as Vice President of the. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
This translation is confessedly a working-over of the Leipzig translation already mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
On the 24th we slipped across in gallant style, and confessedly in first-rate order and trim. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Still, though the present subject is confessedly such, we must try and do what we can for it. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
In the case referred to the man who was condemned was confessedly head and shoulders above his peers. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
She was confessedly ambitious for Nancy -- Nancy, the youngest, the cleverest, the fairest of the three. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
The dignity of the order of prophets is so great that they cannot teach men what is confessedly hurtful. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
Although this story is professedly and confessedly a romance, history has been consulted at every point. From Wordnik.com. [A Mother's List of Books for Children] Reference
These two books were confessedly inspired by Yorick, and contemporary criticism treated them as Yorick products. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
But on their atmospheric and aqueous hypothesis, vegetation in abundance is confessedly a legitimate consequence. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
Ought one to look for it in a book confessedly unsatisfactory to its author, and a book which was left incomplete?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Ch. i., however, is confessedly vague, and moves for the most part along the familiar lines of theophanic descriptions. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference
He brings to it all the most spacious, all the most delicate interpretations of his wit, yet confessedly leaves more beyond. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Upon this assurance, but confessedly having little or no faith in it, he asked me to dine with him on the auspicious occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
But is not character, with which Ethics confessedly deals, just that concerning which no definite conclusions can be predicted?. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
Education is confessedly but in its infancy; and therefore it must grow much, and change much, before it can arrive at maturity. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference
Agriculture, confessedly the largest interest of the nation, has not a department nor a bureau, but a clerkship only, assigned to it in the. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
States might entertain of the power of the rest were allayed by a rule of representation confessedly unequal at the time, and designed forever to remain so. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Mayhew and Landells to nominate him as one of the co-editors -- for that was a quality in which both Henry Mayhew and Stirling Coyne were confessedly deficient. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
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