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  • Groups of young whites who ostensibly maintained order among the slaves.†   (source)
  • I wonder if maybe it ever occurred to you that your argument, while ostensibly based on logic, might have less intellectual than libidinous roots.†   (source)
  • The Overlook Hotel, a white elephant that has been run lucklessly by almost a dozen different groups and individuals since it first opened its doors in 1910, is now being operated as a security-jacketed "key club," ostensibly for unwinding businessmen.†   (source)
  • The doctor's appointment was ostensibly a routine visit.†   (source)
  • Henri ostensibly believes the additional exercise will help in my training, but the real reason is that he hopes it will help my body's transition and pull my Legacies from their slumber, if that is indeed what they are doing.†   (source)
  • He traveled to Minneapolis, ostensibly on business.†   (source)
  • After numerous misadventures, Daisy dies, ostensibly by contracting malaria on her midnight jaunt.†   (source)
  • Her immediate supervisor was a man named Kevin, who served as the ostensible technology officer at the utility, but who, in a strange twist, happened to know nothing about technology.†   (source)
  • Ostensibly we were still an elderly watchmaker living with his two spinster daughters above his tiny shop.†   (source)
  • For more than a decade, ConAgra executives allegedly spoke on the phone to, or met at motels with, their ostensible rivals to set catfish prices nationwide.†   (source)
  • He must rest his weight on his elbows when they make love, ostensibly to avoid hurting her breasts but actually to keep her from having to touch or feel too much of him.†   (source)
  • The walk to the rendezvous point was an interminable one, and as they walked Saeed and Nadia did not hold hands, for that was forbidden in public between genders, even for an ostensibly married couple, but from time to time their knuckles would brush at their sides, and this sporadic physical contact was important to them.†   (source)
  • I only knew that one day, which was tiresomely like all the others before it, I sat in the Railway office, ostensibly waiting to be interviewed.†   (source)
  • It was more profound than other sentiments I'd known, and I was taken with the idea that in an ostensibly godless world that worshiped money and power or, more seductively, a sense of personal efficacy and advancement, like at Duke and Harvard, there was still a place to look for God, and that was in the suffering of the poor.†   (source)
  • As he neared the Hickock farm, he stopped at several neighboring homesteads, ostensibly to ask directions, actually to make inquiries concerning the suspect.†   (source)
  • Miss Alavi and the other Iranian woman had moved over to the swings, ostensibly to play with their children.†   (source)
  • It was a clever bit of psychological manipulation; while ostensibly a criticism, the line contained the implication that the Fugees themselves were special.†   (source)
  • Little information reached Carvahall about that distant country, but Roran at least knew that, although Surda and the Empire were ostensibly at peace, Surdans lived in constant fear that their more powerful neighbor to the north would invade them.†   (source)
  • The simple act of moving their heads up and down, ostensibly for another reason entirely — was sufficient to cause them to recommend a policy that would take money out of their own pockets.†   (source)
  • I shared the most basic operating system with people who ostensibly had little in common with me.†   (source)
  • Ostensibly idle at the time, goaded by fellow Soviet directors to discard his theories and conceits.†   (source)
  • Codes of sexual honor, in which women are valued based on their chastity, ostensibly protect women, but in fact they create an environment in which women are systematically dishonored.†   (source)
  • They were all ostensibly doing everyday activities—washing a car, cutting the grass, getting the mail, playing ball, or just chatting.†   (source)
  • The festivities concluded with a polo match, staged, ostensibly, for the entertainment of the visiting dignitaries.†   (source)
  • A few years ago his mother had taken him and his sister on a trip to Tuscany—a week of heavy, unfamiliar pasta dishes, unsalted bread, hardy brown countryside, and his mother speeding down narrow, twisting roads, barely avoiding crashing their Fiat into the beautiful old buildings they'd ostensibly come to see.†   (source)
  • She turned her back, ostensibly to remove her outer coat and drop it on a nearby bench.†   (source)
  • He also had the ostensible advantage of experienced subordinate officers, professionals all, several of whom had marked ability.†   (source)
  • Bernardine held up his hand and led his protesting former comrade across the boulevard, ostensibly to get out of the way of the firemen, more purposefully to be within earshot of Jason Bourne.†   (source)
  • The group gathered at around 6:00 p. m., and by the time dessert was served at 8:30 not a word had been said about the ostensible reason for the dinner.†   (source)
  • The government required banks to report cash transactions of five thousand dollars or more, ostensibly to hamper attempts by drug lords to launder funds through legitimate financial institutions.†   (source)
  • To take the black, ostensibly, but in truth …†   (source)
  • Her people support her, but her barons hate her, ostensibly because she rules in her own right and has refused to take one of them for a king.†   (source)
  • Soldiers then tie the hands of the president and his brother behind their backs, and the two are placed inside an armored personnel carrier—ostensibly for their own protection.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: (Ostensibly a pleased recognition of HONEY and NICK, but really satisfaction at having MARTHA's explosion overheard) Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!†   (source)
  • Ostensibly, such a ruling would create legal grounds to grant Constitutional rights to every slave in the nation.†   (source)
  • And finally, Astaroth's participation would certainly explain how such an ostensibly unimposing gladiator had reached the championship match….†   (source)
  • But if the ostensible executive needs the approval of an executive council before he can act, most of the same comments apply.†   (source)
  • He put his cigar in his mouth, and, with his right hand, up in the treble keys, he began to play, in octaves, the melody of a song called "The Kinkajou," which, somewhat notably, had shifted into and ostensibly out of popularity before he was born.†   (source)
  • A FEMALE FIGURE, ostensibly the QUEEN, enters.†   (source)
  • What he is trying to do, ostensibly, is develop a new market, since the evil Duke of Squamuglia has steadfastly refused, even with the lower rates and faster service of the Thurn and Taxis system, to employ any but his own messengers in communicating with his stooge Pasquale over in neighboring Faggio.†   (source)
  • I had come to Brooklyn ostensibly "to write my guts out," as dear old Farrell had put it, not to play the hapless supernumerary in some tortured melodrama.†   (source)
  • Ostensibly, The Hangman was a communications device.†   (source)
  • Since the owner's house was burned and the owner ostensibly burned with it, the employees of the tannery, out of respect, did not go to work.†   (source)
  • On the Friday Peter Holmes drove up to Melbourne in his little car, ostensibly to try and find a garden seat.†   (source)
  • X,' the suggestion is that Umkhonto was the inspiration of the Communist Party which sought by playing upon imaginary grievances to enroll the African people into an army which ostensibly was to fight for African freedom, but in reality was fighting for a communist state.†   (source)
  • "If," Mr. Fossetta remarked ostensibly to Mama, with something a little ominous in his voice, "if she has a brother, then it will be her brother come to meet him."†   (source)
  • Reich brought in an Esper 1 Efficiency Expert, ostensibly for a general check-up, and located the substitution.†   (source)
  • That is what he would have said, just as if the issue had not been decided—though ostensibly it had never been mentioned—less than ten minutes before.†   (source)
  • Every ten feet, each ostensible floor, the temperature dropped ten degrees.†   (source)
  • His ostensible narrator, Diedrich Knickerbocker, is a jolly companion who spins out these tales of his Dutch ancestors without seeing all the implications.†   (source)
  • So while the ostensible aim is to empower girls in countries like Pakistan, some of the major beneficiaries are the American girls.†   (source)
  • I said nothing, of course—Nathan being the ostensible master of the situation—but it troubled me painfully, troubled me that Sophie appeared to be so rapidly turning into a lush; and I was further disconcerted over the fact that Nathan did not seem to notice, or if he did, failed to take the protective measures that such heavy, distracted and potentially dangerous drinking called for.†   (source)
  • So he waves his baton in the Piazza, ostensibly putting the classical repertoire behind him.†   (source)
  • He's examining the rafters above our heads, ostensibly for more leaks.†   (source)
  • He was ostensibly watching for speeders, but in actual fact he was cooping.†   (source)
  • She let a car pass and took a look in both directions, ostensibly to check for more traffic.†   (source)
  • But ostensibly she broke down over the bicycles.†   (source)
  • Because once he started again …. well she wouldn't interrupt him while he was working, but she' would take each day's output as soon as he was done, ostensibly to fill in the missing letters, but actually , he knew this by now, just as sexually acute men know which dates will put out at the end of the evening and which ones will not , to get her fix.†   (source)
  • …quiet, oldest brother Brett out with his girl, middle brother Mike studying something, Becky and their mother in the living room, watching something on the balky old TV; and he would sit in the hall dressed in a pajama singlet and nothing else, ostensibly playing with his trucks, actually waiting for the moment when the silence would be broken by the door swinging open with a large bang, the bellow of his father's welcome when he saw Jacky was waiting, his own happy squeal in answer as…†   (source)
  • And this crime, among all others, seems like the most difficult thing to prevent, given the perpetrators are ostensibly part of the family, right?†   (source)
  • Ostensibly, they were of the same racial order (whites) as those who dominated economic, political, and social power in local and national arenas.†   (source)
  • As the meeting progressed—and grew heated—the attorney who previously had wanted to accept Holmes's mortgage stepped out of Chamberlin's office and entered the room where Holmes waited, ostensibly for a drink of water.†   (source)
  • There are always lots of clubs in farm towns, where the wives are ostensibly doing good works, but the good works are afloat in a river of talk, and that's the real point, I always thought.†   (source)
  • Ostensibly, the caseworkers were there to protect me, but it became very obvious, very early in the process, that they were obstacles to overcome.†   (source)
  • City directories also listed at Holmes's address the office of a doctor named Henry D. Mann, possibly a Holmes alias, and the headquarters of the Warner Glass Bending Company, which Holmes formed ostensibly to enter the booming new business of making and shaping the large sheets of plate glass suddenly in so much demand.†   (source)
  • Like the brothers in the parable, Sister is irritated and envious that the child who left, and ostensibly used up her "share" of familial goodwill, is instantly welcomed, her sins so quickly forgiven.†   (source)
  • "How do you think other Girders feel, knowing that you're so close to them physically, that you're ostensibly 'part of a community here, but you don't want them to know your hobbies and interests.†   (source)
  • Just an hour ago, as many of you know, I entered this bathroom, ostensibly under the auspices of doing my business in the second stall you see over here.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, in "Daisy Miller," he employs the figure of the vampire as an emblem of the way society—polite, ostensibly normal society—battens on and consumes its victims.†   (source)
  • D. H. Lawrence gave us any number of short stories where characters devour and destroy one another in life-and-death contests of will, novellas like "The Fox" (1923) and even novels like Women in Love (1920), in which Gudrun Brangwen and Gerald Crich, although ostensibly in love with one another, each realize that only one of them can survive and so engage in mutually destructive behavior.†   (source)
  • Her new editor was in town for the evening, ostensibly just passing through from Atlanta and wanting to stop in and be social.†   (source)
  • 'Olivia and I were taking a study break from working on our English projects, ostensibly so I could introduce to her to Jamie, who'd been out puttering around the pond, the way he always did on Saturday mornings.†   (source)
  • This indelicate comment drew an immediate scowl from Lou, and just as quickly Oz looked out the window, ostensibly to admire the countryside.†   (source)
  • She opened her purse, removed a compact and ostensibly checked her makeup, angling the small mirror first to the left, then to the right.†   (source)
  • A policeman, a detective, returned to our home, ostensibly to follow up on April's disappearance, and upon sight of him, I ordered him from our home.†   (source)
  • When Jefferson left Paris at the end of February for a long, leisurely tour of southern France and Italy, ostensibly to see if the mineral springs at Aix-en-Provence might help his still-painful wrist, John Adams kept on writing to him.†   (source)
  • No seats were available, so, again cautiously, politely, he squeezed sideways between two customers, ordered a Pemod and asked for a napkin on which to write a message, ostensibly personal, to no one who might concern the establishment.†   (source)
  • Or it can be given ostensibly to one man who is subject, in whole or part, to the control and cooperation of other people who act as counselors to him.†   (source)
  • The time and place suggested the sort of "social" meeting that was, in reality, a display of influence and associations, and where ostensibly unofficial business would be done.†   (source)
  • Eugene stared down each of the customers in the store, ostensibly, Lou thought, to make clear that this statement applied to all of them as well.†   (source)
  • A desire to inherit this estate was ostensibly the motivation behind Lowell Lee's plot to destroy his family.†   (source)
  • To-night, he threatened our headwaiter with a carving knife, ostensibly because the beef was prepared too rare.†   (source)
  • While Kirsten had talked about coming for Thanksgiving, she'd opted instead to stay in the city, ostensibly to work some extra shifts and catch up on schoolwork.†   (source)
  • Talinga, the waxer, said as she breezed in, ostensibly for some good reason but actually to make sure Mrs. Michaels's tip was big enough and made it into her envelope.†   (source)
  • On a tour of New England, ostensibly to bid farewell to his army before it disbanded, Hamilton spent as much time as possible among local Federalist leaders to whom he spread the same charge against Adams.†   (source)
  • To add to Adams's troubles, Alexander Hamilton was up to his old tricks behind the scenes, urging the strongest possible support for Thomas Pinckney, ostensibly as a way to keep Jefferson from becoming Vice President, but also, it was suspected, to defeat Adams as well and make Pinckney president—Pinckney being someone Hamilton could more readily control.†   (source)
  • The minister had an envelope full; but when he produced them, ostensibly for distribution among the jurors, an exasperated Logan Green leaped to his feet: "If Your Honor please, this is going too far…"†   (source)
  • Men and women-in eleven cases ostensibly husbands and wives-with extensive connections in Europe, in the main with technological firms and related nuclear and aerospace industries, all under intelligence microscopes for possibly selling classified information to brokers of the Eastern bloc and therefore to Moscow.†   (source)
  • Ostensibly.†   (source)
  • Then she saw that Hilarius had left the Gewehr on his desk and was across the room ostensibly trying to open a file cabinet.†   (source)
  • Ostensibly a stooge for the SS, he was not quite the bootlicker and Hoss's lackey that a necessity for accommodation would make him appear.†   (source)
  • There are occasions, Alvah, when the issues at stake are not the ostensible facts at all.†   (source)
  • The leafless tree was behind our ostensible lives for many months.†   (source)
  • …with passive and hopeless grief upon the irrevocable world, held there not in durance but in a kind of jeering suspension by a man (his face the same which Mr Coldfield now saw and had seen since that day when, with his future son-in-law for ostensible yokemate but actually whip, Mr Coldfield's conscience had set the brakes and, surrendering even his share of the cargo, he and the son-in-law had parted) who had entered hers and her family's life before she was born with the abruptness…†   (source)
  • At first I thought of knocking, then I remembered my ostensible errand and resolved to carry it out.†   (source)
  • He had also reasons, deep rather than ostensible, for being satisfied with his own appearance.†   (source)
  • He redrew the will, and his ostensible nephew was heir to a fortune again.†   (source)
  • …broken victuals in a corner, like any other tramp or like a dog; but she was so remorseful for the scolding she had given him, that she did what she could to atone for it by allowing him to sit at the family table and eat with his betters, on ostensible terms of equality with them; and the King, on his side, was so remorseful for having broken his trust, after the family had been so kind to him, that he forced himself to atone for it by humbling himself to the family level, instead of…†   (source)
  • It was in an ostensible vein of sarcasm that he had asked me to call him, and that he himself called me, "my master."†   (source)
  • Oh, the G. C. L. has to have some other ostensible purposes—frinstance here in Zenith I think it ought to support the park-extension project and the City Planning Committee—and then, too, it should have a social aspect, being made up of the best people—have dances and so on, especially as one of the best ways it can put the kibosh on cranks is to apply this social boycott business to folks big enough so you can't reach 'em otherwise.†   (source)
  • "I am not particularly innocent, as you see, now that I have 'twitched the robe From that blank lay-figure your fancy draped,' " said she, with an ostensible sneer, though he could hear that she was brimming with tears.†   (source)
  • In fact, Amory did most of the strutting and tried painfully to make every remark an epigram, than which, if one is content with ostensible epigrams, there are many feats harder.†   (source)
  • Proceedings can't be prevented from moving forward unless there are some at least ostensible reasons given.†   (source)
  • It was, in short, as the regulator of a germinating social life that Miss Bart's guidance was required; her ostensible duties as secretary being restricted by the fact that Mrs. Hatch, as yet, knew hardly any one to write to.†   (source)
  • Could it be possible, he continued, that eyes which as they gazed never expressed any divergence from what the tongue was telling, were yet ever seeing another world behind her ostensible one, discordant and contrasting?†   (source)
  • The ostensible reason of his appearance was the discovery, the very night before, of a "perfect little house," not in the market, which was really just the thing for her, but would be snapped up instantly if she didn't take it; and he was loud in mock-reproaches for the dance she had led him in running away just as he had found it.†   (source)
  • But at last, after a pause of some duration, returning for a moment to their ostensible theme, "Ah, well," he said, "I'm very glad indeed you like the old barrack.†   (source)
  • My ostensible errand on this occasion was to get measured for a pair of shoes; so I discharged that business first, and when it was done, I stepped across the clean and quiet little street from the shoemaker's to the post-office: it was kept by an old dame, who wore horn spectacles on her nose, and black mittens on her hands.†   (source)
  • So two or three other persons were invited; but Morris Townsend, though he was by no means the ostensible, was the real, occasion of the feast.†   (source)
  • The ostensible reason why Ahab did not go on board of the whaler we had spoken was this: the wind and sea betokened storms.†   (source)
  • When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtile process than the ostensible one.†   (source)
  • But, while he was making this ostensible sacrifice to general considerations, Magua never lost sight of his individual motives.†   (source)
  • He was brushed and washed at the usual hour, and set off with his son to pursue his ostensible calling.†   (source)
  • His ostensible reason, however, was to ask whether Mr. Woodhouse's party could be made up in the evening without him, or whether he should be in the smallest degree necessary at Hartfield.†   (source)
  • Laporte made no further objection, and read: "My Lord, By that which, since I have known you, have suffered by you and for you, I conjure you, if you have any care for my repose, to countermand those great armaments which you are preparing against France, to put an end to a war of which it is publicly said religion is the ostensible cause, and of which, it is generally whispered, your love for me is the concealed cause.†   (source)
  • But man, even to himself, is a palimpsest, having an ostensible writing, and another beneath the lines.†   (source)
  • True, there were ugly recollections connected with his first glimpses of the beautiful girl; he could not quite forget the bouquet that withered in her grasp, and the insect that perished amid the sunny air, by no ostensible agency save the fragrance of her breath.†   (source)
  • The name of that lady no longer appeared on the flaming door-plate, that of Miss Knag being substituted in its stead; but the bonnets and dresses were still dimly visible in the first-floor windows by the decaying light of a summer's evening, and excepting this ostensible alteration in the proprietorship, the establishment wore its old appearance.†   (source)
  • I own that your question embarrasses me, Valentine, for I cannot say that the count has rendered me any ostensible service.†   (source)
  • He had even devised a plan of starting off on a journey in this agreeable June weather; the headaches which he had constantly been alleging as a ground for stupidity and silence were a sufficient ostensible motive.†   (source)
  • It were difficult to describe the shape or colours of this extraordinary substance, except to say, in general terms, that it was nearly spherical, and exhibited all the hues of the rainbow, intermingled without reference to harmony, and without any very ostensible design.†   (source)
  • Their passions draw them together, but the condition of society, and the notions suggested by it, prevent them from contracting a permanent and ostensible tie.†   (source)
  • After this music, the priest who stood behind the royal table said a noble long grace in ostensible Latin.†   (source)
  • There were ladies in search of necklaces, and men, it seemed to Kim—but his mind may have been vitiated by early training—in search of the ladies; natives from independent and feudatory Courts whose ostensible business was the repair of broken necklaces—rivers of light poured out upon the table—but whose true end seemed to be to raise money for angry Maharanees or young Rajahs.†   (source)
  • Amongst a people whose ranks are nearly equal, no ostensible bond connects men together, or keeps them settled in their station.†   (source)
  • These poor ostensible freemen who were sharing their breakfast and their talk with me, were as full of humble reverence for their king and Church and nobility as their worst enemy could desire.†   (source)
  • A mercantile house was established in the metropolis of Pennsylvania, with the avails of Mr. Effingham's personal property; all, or nearly all, of which was put into the possession of Temple, who was the only ostensible proprietor in the concern, while, in secret, the other was entitled to an equal participation in the profits.†   (source)
  • The word was blunder; and as Harriet exultingly proclaimed it, there was a blush on Jane's cheek which gave it a meaning not otherwise ostensible.†   (source)
  • But the ostensible semblance of authority is by no means indispensable to the conduct of affairs, and it is needlessly offensive to the susceptibility of the public.†   (source)
  • —I cannot deny that Miss Woodhouse was my ostensible object—but I am sure you will believe the declaration, that had I not been convinced of her indifference, I would not have been induced by any selfish views to go on.†   (source)
  • He would have forgotten himself, sure, and said something to them in a style a suspicious shade or so above his ostensible degree, and so I always got him well out of the road in time.†   (source)
  • But the revolutionists of America are obliged to profess an ostensible respect for Christian morality and equity, which does not easily permit them to violate the laws that oppose their designs; nor would they find it easy to surmount the scruples of their partisans, even if they were able to get over their own.†   (source)
  • On his deathbed Driscoll set Roxy free and delivered his idolized ostensible son solemnly into the keeping of his brother, the judge, and his wife.†   (source)
  • I do not assert that the ostensible end, or even that the secret aim, of American parties is to promote the rule of aristocracy or democracy in the country; but I affirm that aristocratic or democratic passions may easily be detected at the bottom of all parties, and that, although they escape a superficial observation, they are the main point and the very soul of every faction in the United States.†   (source)
  • His ostensible "aunt's" solicitudes and endearments were become a terror to him, and he avoided them.†   (source)
  • These ladies remain ladies to you, and to themselves, and to everybody else; and at the same time they will suffer in no way from my delusion, for when I know that an ostensible hog is a lady, that is enough for me, I know how to treat her.†   (source)
  • And all the time, hatred of his ostensible "uncle" was steadily growing in his heart; for he said to himself, "He is white; and I am his chattel, his property, his goods, and he can sell me, just as he could his dog."†   (source)
  • The ostensible "Chambers" said: "De fac' is, ole marster kin git along better when young marster's away den he kin when he's in de town; yes, en he love him better, too; so he gives him fifty dollahs a month—"†   (source)
  • For some years Wilson had been privately at work on a whimsical almanac, for his amusement—a calendar, with a little dab of ostensible philosophy, usually in ironical form, appended to each date; and the judge thought that these quips and fancies of Wilson's were neatly turned and cute; so he carried a handful of them around one day, and read them to some of the chief citizens.†   (source)
  • Ostensibly the pony was for all three children and Rhett bought a saddle for Wade too.†   (source)
  • As a child I had more than once watched her and Judith and even Henry scuffling in the rough games which they (possibly all children; I do not know) played, and (so I have heard) she and Judith even slept together, in the same room but with Judith in the bed and she on a pallet on the floor ostensibly.†   (source)
  • All four are on the order of culture, and ostensibly, parts of the same culture and products of the same society.†   (source)
  • Even returning to Chicago, ostensibly to visit his father, the old man called by Grandma "the Baker," he had a mission, which was to contact Frazer.†   (source)
  • The others instantly withdraw their proposal, ostensibly through their "Unselfishness", but really because they don't want to be used as a sort of lay figure on which the first speaker practises petty altruisms.†   (source)
  • This was ostensibly for patients, but he opened it to the townspeople as well, charging more for admission than the usual public bathhouse did; its tubs, after all, were of marble.†   (source)
  • Ostensibly it was Miss Pitty he came to see and she had no better sense than to believe it and give herself airs over his visits.†   (source)
  • Ostensibly, at least, it meant this -- meant starving in a garret -- although, as we will be shown later, the avant-garde remained attached to bourgeois society precisely because it needed its money.†   (source)
  • He had come into a view of mutability, and I too could see that one is only ostensibly born to remain in specified limits.†   (source)
  • …orphaned country stick called Rosa Coldfield, safely engaged at last and so off the town, the county; they will have told you How I went out there to live for the rest of my life, seeing in my nephew's murdering an act of God enabling me ostensibly to obey my dying sister's request that I save at least one of the two children which she had doomed by conceiving them but actually to be in the house when he returned who, being a demon, would therefore be impervious to shot and shell…†   (source)
  • Ostensibly getting ready to occupy himself with a piece of work while we were away--the files and information were laid out for him--he was unhurried, engaging, and smooth-tempered in his tortoise-shell specs, answering every last question in full and even detaining the excursion to have some last words with his father about frontages or improvements.†   (source)
  • Stillwell appeared, ostensibly cheerful, too cheerful to deceive Madeline.†   (source)
  • There were other rooms apart from the kitchen to which Dillard and Zella had ostensibly departed.†   (source)
  • He had, ostensibly, come in to borrow a safety-pin of her.†   (source)
  • What point there would be, in telephoning a state attorney when I'm ostensibly under arrest?†   (source)
  • It was only at an entertainment ostensibly offered to a "foreign visitor" that Mrs. van der Luyden could suffer the diminution of being placed on her host's left.†   (source)
  • M. Moncharmin and M. Richard, ostensibly highly amused and laughing at each other, moved the furniture of the box, lifted the cloths and the chairs and particularly examined the arm-chair in which "the man's voice" used to sit.†   (source)
  • Then Mrs. Bland uttered an exclamation, ostensibly meant to express surprise, and hurried out to meet them.†   (source)
  • She was staying on, ostensibly to take a graduate course in English, actually to avoid going back home.†   (source)
  • After a while she realized that the man in the jockey cap was giving a quiet little performance for this group; he moved gravely about with a rake, ostensibly removing gravel and meanwhile developing some esoteric burlesque held in suspension by his grave face.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Burgess, a good sort and no chatterbox, in whom he had confided, thought this absence of his in England, ostensibly to see lawyers might serve to make Daisy reconsider, think what it meant.†   (source)
  • Carmichael had ridden out of Pine, ostensibly on the trail of the Mexicans who had executed Beasley's commands.†   (source)
  • He had been listening at the galley door, but he now came out, ostensibly to fling some scraps over the side, but obviously to see the killing he was certain would take place.†   (source)
  • Then with a red head of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a beggar.†   (source)
  • Ostensibly she went to see the doctor because of her health, but on the half dozen occasions when she had been to see him the outcome of the visits did not primarily concern her health.†   (source)
  • One progressed from the ostensibly smallest unit to something smaller still, one was compelled to split something elemental into yet more basic elements.†   (source)
  • Up to a year or two ago it had been the custom to kill horses in the yards—ostensibly for fertilizer; but after long agitation the newspapers had been able to make the public realize that the horses were being canned.†   (source)
  • But she soon found a curious correspondence between the ostensibly chance position of the cows and her wishes in this matter, till she felt that their order could not be the result of accident.†   (source)
  • The invitation was one which, a year earlier, would have provoked a less ready response, for the party, though organized by Mrs. Fisher, was ostensibly given by a lady of obscure origin and indomitable social ambitions, whose acquaintance Lily had hitherto avoided.†   (source)
  • The day after these scandalous events, however, the prince had the honour of receiving a visit from Adelaida and her fiance, Prince S. They came, ostensibly, to inquire after his health.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Lawrence was ostensibly pleased with him, and her interest was especially in his mind; he wanted people to like his mind again—after a while it might be such a nice place in which to live.†   (source)
  • Since he was himself ostensibly healthy, he would have to get used to the idea that he was not the number one person around here, that he had to step back and wait his turn.†   (source)
  • "But what's his son like?" interrogated Bella, who only knew such well groomed and ostensibly conservative youths and men as her present social status and supervision permitted, and in consequence was intensely interested.†   (source)
  • He left Ord, ostensibly toward Bradford, but, once out of sight, he turned off the road, circled through the brush, and several miles south of town he struck a narrow grass-grown trail that Fletcher had told him led to Cheseldine's camp.†   (source)
  • As for the names of strangers which were uttered in his hearing, he used merely to repeat them to himself in a questioning tone, which, he thought, would suffice to furnish him with explanations for which he would not ostensibly seek.†   (source)
  • But she wrote anew to her mother, ostensibly to notify the wedding-day; really to again implore her advice.†   (source)
  • In Miss Bart's world the Horse Show, and the public it attracted, had ostensibly come to be classed among the spectacles disdained of the elect; but, as the feudal lord might sally forth to join in the dance on his village green, so society, unofficially and incidentally, still condescended to look in upon the scene.†   (source)
  • He liked to put himself forward and entertain the company, ostensibly on equal terms, of course, though in reality he was on a servile footing with them.†   (source)
  • They met a veiled person—ostensibly a woman—coming out of the back gate a few minutes after the cry for help was heard.†   (source)
  • And now more than ever," she said with a mournful, confiding expression, ostensibly addressing her brother, but unmistakably intending her words only for Levin, "now when I have such need of some occupation, I cannot."†   (source)
  • It could not ostensibly disclose itself in the laws of colonies which were still constrained to obey the mother-country: it was therefore obliged to spread secretly, and to gain ground in the provincial assemblies, and especially in the townships.†   (source)
  • He had a wigwam, it is true, but was seldom in it; feigning friendship for the English, he had passed the summer ostensibly in their service, while he was, in truth, acting for the French, and his wife journeyed with him in his many migrations, most of the distances being passed over in canoes.†   (source)
  • The house of Mr., or as, in consequence of commanding the militia of that vicinity, he was called, Captain Hollister, had, at an early day, been erected directly facing the main street, and ostensibly interposed a barrier to its further progress.†   (source)
  • He had often come up here without stating his purpose to his mother; but this was the first time that he had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it.†   (source)
  • She hardly knew what had happened; ostensibly she had only had a difference with her lover, as other girls had had before, and the thing was not only not a rupture, but she was under no obligation to regard it even as a menace.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Penniman's convictions as regards the relations of her niece and the clever young visitor who saved appearances by coming ostensibly for both the ladies—Mrs. Penniman's convictions had passed into a riper and richer phase.†   (source)
  • As the social importance of men is no longer ostensibly and permanently fixed by blood, and is infinitely varied by wealth, ranks still exist, but it is not easy clearly to distinguish at a glance those who respectively belong to them.†   (source)
  • Amongst aristocratic nations the supreme government usually contented itself with managing and superintending the community in whatever directly and ostensibly concerned the national honor; but in all other respects the people were left to work out their own free will.†   (source)
  • He had taken me there ostensibly to let me see the big establishment which bought so much of his charcoal, but really to let me see what easy and almost familiar terms he was on with this great man.†   (source)
  • To what, lastly, is the fact to be attributed, that at this period the method we are speaking of suddenly emerged from the schools, to penetrate into society and become the common standard of intelligence; and that, after it had become popular among the French, it has been ostensibly adopted or secretly followed by all the nations of Europe?†   (source)
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