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"Mightily" in a Sentence (28 examples)
He strove mightily to overcome his addiction to heroin.
"Well, my lad," he said, "and what is this great thing you have to tell me that is so mightily wonderful?"
In the wild countrey of the South, wherein the sunne beateth mightily upon the sandes, there liveth a people both ancient and wise, that feed upon divers creatures, such as the stranger would marvell at. For whereas our tables are garnished with bread, with fleshe, and with wine, their sustenance is found in the very bowels of the earth and in the flights of the aire. Chiefest among these meats is the Witchetty Grubbe, the fat larva of a moth, which hideth it selfe in the roote of the Acacia. With a staffe the women digge the grounde, and plucke forth this white worme of notable bignes. Some eat it raw, even then when it is taken from the roote, saying it hath the taste of almond or of the yolke of an egge. Others do cast it into the fire, so that the skinne is made crisp and the inside savoury, like unto the flesh of a bird well roasted. Thus doth the desert yeeld a dish both wholesome and strong. No lesse esteemed is the Honie Ant, whose belly is swolne with sweet licour, for shee serveth as a living vessel of nectar. The children plucke them gently from the earth, and at the biting of their bellies they finde a drinke more pleasant than the cuppe of grape. A small thing it is, yet of great delight.
The chivalrous knights entered the lists and fought mightily.
So cry Hand & Hyle the eldest of the fathers of Albions / Little-ones; to destroy the Divine Saviour: the Friend of Sinners. / Building Castles in desolated places, and strong Fortifications. / Soon Hand mightily devour'd & absorb'd Albions Twelve Sons.
[A] spirit as of prophecy had come upon him, constraining him to its purpose as mightily as the old prophets of Israel were constrained; […]
And Bagdemagus's son Meliganus brake a spear upon Sir Gareth mightily and knightly.
But they were silent in amazement and expectation when they saw the mighty white ape wriggle upon the back of their king, and with steel muscles tensed beneath the armpits of his antagonist, bear down mightily with his open palms upon the back of the thick bull-neck, so that the king ape could but shriek in agony and flounder helplessly about upon the thick mat of jungle grass.
'The Lord is working mightily,' puffed Pastor Finch, smacking the bongos with his palms. 'Praise the Lord.'
Sir, I ſhal not be ſlacke, in ſigne vvhereof / Pleaſe ye vve may contriue this afternoone, / And quaffe carovvſes to our Miſtreſſe health, / And do as aduerſaries do in lavv, / Striue mightily, but eate and drinke as friends.
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But let man and beaſt be couered with ſackecloth, and cry mightily vnto God: yea, let them turne euery one from his euill way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
I wonder mightily now what sort of a creature I should have turned out, if at this time Love had been with me instead of against me; […]
The Supreme Court tried mightily to come together. […] But in the end came a familiar conservative–liberal split on the last, and perhaps most-watched case of the term ending this week.
[A]lthough he vvas a man mightely friended, yet vvas he by a publike decree baniſhed into one of the Abſyrtides, iſlan ds vpon the coaſt of Libvrnia.
Time, O mighty and mightily peopled city, / Time is busy with thee.
He sounded mightily proud of himself.
Therein thou vvrong'ſt thy Children mightily.
I [Aye], truely, ſir, I am mightily giuen to melancholy.
[I]t is prooued my Lady Hero hath bin falſely accuſde, the Prince [Don Pedro] and Claudio mightily abuſde, and Don Iohn is the author of all, vvho is fled and gone: […]
[…] I to the Duke of York's playhouse; […] I sat mightily behind, and could see but little, and hear not all.
[T]his artificial Ignorance, and learned Gibberiſh, prevailed mightily in theſe laſt Ages, by the Intereſt and Artifice of thoſe, vvho found no eaſier vvay to that pitch of Authority and Dominion they have attained, than by amuſing the Men of Buſineſs, and Ignorant, vvith hard VVords, or employing the Ingenious and Idle in intricate Diſputes, about unintelligible Terms, and holding them perpetually entangled in that endleſs Labyrinth.
When I am sick, I hear he says he is mightily concerned, but neither comes nor sends, because, as he tells his acquaintance with a sigh, he does not care to let me know all the power I have over him, and how impossible it is for him to live without me.
I like mightily your proposal of insuring; but I thought, they would not do it for China, Glasses, or Linen.
[M]iddle-aged nameless gentlemen of easy circumstances […] who lead a sort of facile, slipshod existence, doing nothing, yet mightily interested in what others do; […]
The Billingham fertiliser traffic has grown mightily in the past few seasons.
While casual-dining chains like Applebee's and Olive Garden are struggling mightily, many breastaurant chains reported 30% or more growth in the last few years.
[T]his group of the lion and the man [a sculpture] now bear an unfinished, unwrought appearance, but you cannot look at it a moment, and not instantly avow the majesty and grandeur of the idea that once lay there so mightily embodied.
O, mightily seated and / Throned are our masters, / And steadily rooted; […]
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