" The "respects" might have been the freedom of the city, or an equestrian statue, when presented in this way, and the aunts would have shuddered could they have foreseen the manner of delivery; but it was vastly impressive to the audience, who concluded that Mirandy Sawyer must be making her way uncommonly fast to mansions in the skies, else what meant this abrupt change of heart?
" Next to this uncommonly interesting playground, as a field of action, came, in the children's opinion, the "secret spot.
Felix looked uncommonly foolish.
You look uncommonly animated.
She is tired of trying to please me uncommonly early.
But then, you see, he's made good use of his time,—a first-rate calculator,—can tell you the cubic contents of anything in no time, and put me up the other day to a new market for Swedish bark; he's uncommonly knowing in manufactures, that young fellow.
Garth has drawn me in uncommonly with repairs, draining, that sort of thing: I'm uncommonly out of pocket with one thing or another.
Trumbull was in the back-room of his office, and received Rosamond with his finest manners, not only because he had much sensibility to her charms, but because the good-natured fibre in him was stirred by his certainty that Lydgate was in difficulties, and that this uncommonly pretty woman—this young lady with the highest personal attractions—was likely to feel the pinch of trouble—to find herself involved in circumstances beyond her control.
Trumbull, quickly, "and most uncommonly useful to have a fender at hand that will cut, if you have a leather shoe-tie or a bit of string that wants cutting and no knife at hand: many a man has been left hanging because there was no knife to cut him down.
It's uncommonly fortunate I met you, though; for I don't care about seeing my stepson: he's not affectionate, and his poor mother's gone now.
I don't like it, but I know it's uncommonly hard on my father to say so, after he has spent a good deal of money in educating me for it.
"I'm uncommonly glad to be here—I was never so proud and happy in my life—never so happy, you know.
"I find myself that it's uncommonly difficult to make the right thing work: there are so many strings pulling at once.
and she'll do it, you know; she has gone into his studies uncommonly.
It's a most uncommonly cramping thing, as I've often told Susan, to sit on horseback and look over the hedges at the wrong thing, and not be able to put your hand to it to make it right.
I'm uncommonly easy, let me tell you, uncommonly easy.
They may be uncommonly useful to fellows in a small way.
He talks uncommonly well—points out this, that, and the other—knows art and everything of that kind—companionable, you know—is up with you in any track—what I've been wanting a long while.
"My mother has called him in, and she has found him uncommonly clever.
"He's an uncommonly unfortunate lad, is Fred.