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  • adverb In a divining manner.

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  • adverb In a divining manner.

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Examples

  • _That_ is a romance in no wise divorced from reality -- is, in fact, but reality diviningly perceived; if it uses the old Romanticistic properties, it uses them not because of any inherent validity which they possess, but because they may at times be made to serve as symbols.

    Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908

  • She knew more and more -- every lapsing minute taught her -- how he might by a single rightness make her cease to watch him; that rightness, a million miles removed from the queer actual, falling so short, which would consist of his breaking out to her diviningly, indulgently, with the last happy inconsequence.

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

  • She knew more and more -- every lapsing minute taught her -- how he might by a single rightness make her cease to watch him; that rightness, a million miles removed from the queer actual, falling so short, which would consist of his breaking out to her diviningly, indulgently, with the last happy inconsequence.

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 Henry James 1879

  • She knew more and more -- every lapsing minute taught her -- how he might by a single rightness make her cease to watch him; that rightness, a million miles removed from the queer actual, falling so short, which would consist of his breaking out to her diviningly, indulgently, with the last happy inconsequence.

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 Henry James 1879

  • She knew more and more -- every lapsing minute taught her -- how he might by a single rightness make her cease to watch him; that rightness, a million miles removed from the queer actual, falling so short, which would consist of his breaking out to her diviningly, indulgently, with the last happy inconsequence.

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

  • She knew more and more -- every lapsing minute taught her -- how he might by a single rightness make her cease to watch him; that rightness, a million miles removed from the queer actual, falling so short, which would consist of his breaking out to her diviningly, indulgently, with the last happy inconsequence.

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

  • She knew more and more -- every lapsing minute taught her -- how he might by a single rightness make her cease to watch him; that rightness, a million miles removed from the queer actual, falling so short, which would consist of his breaking out to her diviningly, indulgently, with the last happy inconsequence.

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 Henry James 1879

  • 'anticipation,' the ages of inspiration and spontaneous affirmation, could only divinely -- diviningly -- foresee and promise; -- this gift which the knowledge of the creative laws, the historic laws, the laws of kind, as they are actual in the human nature and the human life, puts into our hands?

    The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

  • That is a romance in no wise divorced from reality ” is, in fact, but reality diviningly perceived; if it uses the old Romanticistic properties, it uses them not because of any inherent validity which they possess, but because they may at times be made to serve as symbols.

    Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908

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