All 3 Uses of
ostensibly
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- 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.†
Chpt 3 *
- But she wrote anew to her mother, ostensibly to notify the wedding-day; really to again implore her advice.†
Chpt 4
- 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?†
Chpt 5ostensible = appearing as such, but not so (sometimes only possibly not so)