Confessedly

Confessedly bewildered, and more melancholy than ever, the driver turned up one of the wildest of these entrances, and in another hour the Foot Hills lay between us and the prairie sea, and a higher and broken range, with pitch pines of average size, was revealed behind them.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

Confessedly a God of armies and Lord of Hosts; confessedly, too, a hardener of men's hearts that he might destroy them: he authorised acts at which human nature shudders, and of which it is ashamed: yet to love, respect, yea, reverence Him, we are commanded by the self-styled 'stewards of his mysteries,' on peril of our 'immortal souls.'

An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Charles Southwell

Confessedly we may trace back phenomena as far as we will without finding ourselves a step nearer a commencement.

Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen

Confessedly it was time that the Pope should exercise the power reposing in him as Head of the Church, and take away from the heretical and effeminate Greeks the Imperial crown, and bestow it upon some strong, orthodox, and worthy prince in the West.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

Confessedly all this is conjectural or traditional, as are also any details of episcopal administration. '

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

Confessedly, it denotes a great and far-reaching change; can we, then, in the first instance, briefly and plainly state what this change is from, what it involves, and in what respect it is supposed to help us in dealing with the problem of religion?

Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer

Confessedly with a sad heart -- for I carried with me memories of kindnesses such as I had never known before -- I led my nervous pony, Rusty, out through the Dung Men (the East Gate), with twenty enthusiastic scholars and a few grown-ups forming a turbulent rear.

Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

Confessedly poor, obviously extravagant and luxury-loving, even the rich men who wanted to marry her knew that

The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914

Confessedly the stoutest race prejudices lie with those who have never stepped outside their own boundaries.

Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906

Confessedly or unconfessedly we knock his profits, not only off what goes to the taxpayer, but what goes to the soldier.

Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays 1905