"Sensibly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nodded their heads with satisfaction, remarking to one another: "This young man talks sensibly." ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... Roman pieces of Voltaire to be more consistent, in a political point of view, with historical truth, than his Greek pieces are with the symbolical original of mythology. This is, however, the case only in Brutus, the earliest of them, and the only one which can be said to be sensibly planned. Voltaire sketched this tragedy in England; he had there learned from Julius Caesar the effect which the publicity of Republican transactions is capable of producing on the stage, and he ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel
... change must naturally be slow, but I feel sure that, in due time, a general amelioration in the habits and industry of the laborers will be sensibly experienced by all grades of society in this island, and will prove the benign effects and propitious results of the co-operated exertions of all, for their general benefit ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
... but they demand all the sterner virtues afterwards. The little dainty, fuzzy-haired, simpering dolly who chatters and wears toe-slippers has a better chance in the matrimonial market than the clear-headed, plainer girl, who dresses sensibly. A little boy once gave his mother directions as to his birthday present—he said he wanted "something foolish" and therein he expressed a purely ...
— In Times Like These • Nellie L. McClung
... musket if Blackbeard sneaks back to bang at us with his pistols," was the evasive reply. The mention of the corpse had given old Trimble a distaste for the task. To his petulant question, Bill Saxby protested that he couldn't swim a blessed stroke and he sensibly added: ...
— Blackbeard: Buccaneer • Ralph D. Paine
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