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Sentences starting with otherwise

Otherwise these pages would never have been written. [9]
Otherwise their day will be short indeed; and I should wish for them a day a little longer at least than my day and span. [11]
Otherwise I take what each day brings, because I can not do otherwise. [10]
Otherwise the jail was in good condition. [4]
Otherwise I will wait in Chicago and sue the company for violating its contract. [5]
Otherwise he seemed to harden into stone. [11]
Otherwise it runs the risk of being a dead letter and a thing to laugh at. [5]
Otherwise I shall tackle Adam once more, and do him in a kind of a friendly and respectful way that will commend him to the Sunday schools. [5]
Otherwise she would surely not have lived so long. [13]
Otherwise it would surely have been one of the wonders which he knew only from legends. [10]

Sentences ending with otherwise

General Grant wishes you to remain in command of the department, and I do not wish to order otherwise. [7]
And so matters would have remained, and in a few weeks, after passing the examination, I should have returned to my happy mother, had not a perverse Fate willed otherwise. [10]
He liked words--big words, fine words, grand words, rumbling, thundering, reverberating words; with sense attaching if it could be got in without marring the sound, but not otherwise. [5]
I believe 23,500 will cover all the killed, wounded, and missing in all your battles and skirmishes, leaving 50,000 who have left otherwise. [7]
Hundreds of families whose men were in the army came to be within touch of the War Office and Aldershot, and the capital of the Empire was overrun by intriguers, harmless and otherwise. [11]
Princess Mary's self-esteem was wounded by the fact that the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both her companions' not having the least conception that it could be otherwise. [2]
She understood him very well, though pretending otherwise. [11]
This was done under military protection, directed by me, in the belief, still sincerely entertained, that with such a nucleus around which to build we could get the State into position again sooner than otherwise. [7]
He held him unclean who had been branded by the law; and how should it have been otherwise? [10]
If it shall turn out as you say, I will give you the letter and send you to the King, and not otherwise. [5]

Short sentences using otherwise

Otherwise, the situation was embarrassing. [5]
How could I think otherwise? [5]
Quite otherwise thought the centurion. [10]
Otherwise you're a sentimentalist. [9]
It cannot be otherwise. [5]
Here it is otherwise. [4]
It couldn't be otherwise. [13]
I besought him otherwise. [11]
Filippi--understands drawing; but otherwise. [10]
Otherwise, I could not. [5]

More example sentences with the word otherwise in them

That each of you will, in his sphere, do all he can to have the officers, soldiers, and seamen of the army and navy, while engaged in the effort to suppress the rebellion, paid, fed, clad, and otherwise well provided for and supported. [7]
Belward continued: "What you hear me tell is what you can speak of; otherwise you are blind and dumb. [11]
Neither any thing you have presented me, nor anything I have otherwise learned, has convinced me that he has been unfaithful to this charge. [7]
Be thankful that you have once known them, and remember that even the learned ignorance of a nomenclature is something to have mastered, and may furnish pegs to hang facts upon which would otherwise have strewed the floor of memory in loose disorder. [3]
Doesn't it make you feel rather small and otherwise unworthy when you see the kind of street these fellow-beings of yours live in, and then think how particular you are about locality and the number of bellpulls? [8]
As for his wound, how could it do otherwise than well under such hands? [6]
Otherwise, any happiness worth having is out of the question. [9]
He could have wished secrecy for Delia Gasgoyne, and for his grandfather and grandmother,--he was not wilfully brutal,--but otherwise he had no shame at all; he would stand openly for his right. [11]
But it was wisely ordered otherwise, to the end that we should improve our time by an interesting study of human nature. [4]
I fear chance will not be so propitious as to bring you to town while I am there; otherwise, how glad I should be if you would call. [14]
You and he will communicate with each other by telegraph or otherwise as frequently as may be necessary for efficient cooperation. [7]
Tell Neithotep, in whose hands thou art as wax, that he has found the best means of forcing me to grant demands, which otherwise I should have refused. [10]
It softened his whole otherwise rigid aspect. [6]
The young Marylander, who was born and bred to that mode of worship, had introduced her to the chapel, for which he did the honors for such of our boarders as were not otherwise provided for. [6]
Those of us who are not in the asylum, and not demonstrably due there, are nevertheless no doubt insane in one or two particulars--I think we must admit this; but I think that we are otherwise healthy-minded. [5]
He was a white-headed man, now, but otherwise he was as young, alert, buoyant, visionary and enterprising as ever. [5]
But many brightly-coloured, white, or otherwise conspicuous species, do not seek concealment; whilst again some equally conspicuous species, as well as other dull-coloured kinds live under stones and in dark recesses. [1]
The severe suffering which has darkened so large a portion of my life has been attributed to this fracture, but the idea is probably incorrect; otherwise the consequences would have appeared earlier. [10]
She was gazing where she knew him to be; but she could not imagine him otherwise than as he had been here. [2]
So it is when the literary deities, vestal or otherwise, return to their Stratfords. [9]
Were it otherwise, were you not from first to last unworthy, would you have--but no, your worst crime need not be judged here. [11]
Very likely they were soiled pencil notes, written to some school sweetheart --to "Becky Thatcher," perhaps--and tossed across at lucky moments, or otherwise, with happy or disastrous results. [5]
Even if it were otherwise, I must always--always think of you. [10]
But if it were otherwise, I did not suppose that Americans objected to rank. [4]
In these ranks were certain maiden ladies and widows who found in church work an outlet to an otherwise circumscribed existence. [9]
By the bill we are to receive annually a large sum of money, no part of which we otherwise receive. [7]
The very first was rather encouraging than otherwise, although they were not all so. [9]
His mind, however, was otherwise active. [5]
Mr. C. Staniland Wake argues strongly ('Anthropologia,' March, 1874, p. 197) against the views held by these three writers on the former prevalence of almost promiscuous intercourse; and he thinks that the classificatory system of relationship can be otherwise explained. [1]
When fruit and vegetables were sent to us, a "chit" came with them--a receipt for us to sign; otherwise the things might not arrive. [5]
But it comforts us to let on that we think otherwise, and these pretensions help to keep hope alive in her. [5]
But being considerably under the influence of liquor, Reeder did not feel his wounds as he otherwise would, and he got up and went into the street. [5]
He asks, if Trumbull thought so then, what ground is there for anybody thinking otherwise now? [7]
It was a triumph for Jasmine, for otherwise Stafford would not have gone. [11]
A very remarkable trip; but it was conducted by a captain who was a remarkable man, otherwise there would have been no survivors. [5]
It is a tremendous favor to ask, and I expect you to refuse and would be ashamed to expect you to do otherwise. [5]
I shall trust to your honor that you will never try, by letter or otherwise, to hold any communication with her. [4]
Nobody really seemed to think it otherwise than pretty; and this again was a triumph for Mrs. March, because it showed how inferior the New York taste was to the Boston taste in such matters. [8]
By and by to the elephant stables, and I took a ride; but it was by request--I did not ask for it, and didn't want it; but I took it, because otherwise they would have thought I was afraid, which I was. [5]
Do you mean to say that if he was all right and proper otherwise you'd be indifferent about the earl part of the business? [5]
They could afford to mind their own affairs and leave other combinations to do the same or do otherwise, just as they chose. [5]
His purpose was to make some arrangement with Heinz Schorlin about the lost estate and obtain definite knowledge concerning his quarrel with him, of which he remembered nothing except that intoxication and jealousy had carried him further than would have happened otherwise. [10]
Leaving her mainly to herself, she could be to some extent indirectly influenced,--not otherwise. [6]
He was nearest to her now of all the world, and he could not suffer the thought of her having the news otherwise. [9]
Now in order to get the flask, a most ancient ceremonial had to be gone through with; otherwise the Abb, of St. Remi, hereditary guardian in perpetuity of the oil, would not deliver it. [5]
I want you to fix it so that you and the Madam can remain in Boston all night; for I leave next day and we can't have a talk, otherwise. [5]
This bill seems to contemplate no end which cannot be otherwise more certainly and beneficially attained. [7]
You are warned to be very careful and explicit in your answers, for the welfare of the service requires that the nurses be promptly fined or otherwise punished for derelictions. [5]
These things ought to be attended to while a person is young; otherwise, when age and disease come, there is nothing effectual to fight them with. [5]
Allow no one to assume the functions of confiscating property, under the law of Congress, or otherwise, except upon orders from here. [7]
Even now, however, though association with her brothers had made her particularly alive to everything that was beautiful or curious, she glanced round with less interest than she otherwise might have done, for she had much else to think of. [10]
I only ask those who read them to consider her life,--which has been openly laid bare before them,--and to say how it could be otherwise. [14]
In pursuance of this plan, Duke Mercury, with an army of thirty thousand, whereof nearly ten thousand were French, besieged Stowell-Weisenberg, otherwise called Alba Regalis, a place so strong by art and nature that it was thought impregnable. [4]
Provided we insert this explanation, they are willing to let his article pass; otherwise they must require its suppression in the interest of truth. [5]
You can get this done at the Sakhi Binayak Temple, and it is best to do it, for otherwise you might not be able to prove that you had made the pilgrimage in case the matter should some day come to be disputed. [5]
Others wrote as they did, because they feared it would be unpopular to write otherwise. [5]
In the woods there was not much sign of animal life, scarcely the note of a bird, but we noticed as we rode along in the otherwise primeval silence a loud and continuous humming overhead, almost like the sound of the wind in pine tops. [4]
He was not there on the particular Sunday when this story opens, otherwise the conversation about to be recorded would not have taken place. [9]
For in history there is no great general, however gifted, who arrived at success otherwise than through able teaching and hard study and some experience. [5]
This may bring them to act sooner than they otherwise would. [7]
It looked upon the two neighbours which it linked together--London and Southwark--as being well enough as suburbs, but not otherwise particularly important. [5]
So, also, with the Sun and Moon and the Milky Pay, otherwise the Gulf Stream of the Skies. [5]
She had attended the regular Sunday services of her church; otherwise she had not gone to the village for weeks. [13]
Broca thus explains the otherwise inexplicable fact, that the mean capacity of the skull of the ancient Troglodytes of Lozere is greater than that of modern Frenchmen. [1]
I can put the ore right there, I can send the coke back from here in cars which would otherwise be empty, and manufacture tubes at eight dollars a ton less than they are selling. [9]
Shelley's life has the one indelible blot upon it, but is otherwise worshipfully noble and beautiful. [5]
Public opinion in the old democratic sense is a myth; it must be made by strong individuals who recognize and represent evolutionary needs, otherwise it's at the mercy of demagogues who play fast and loose with the prejudice and ignorance of the mob. [9]
He looked at the matter somewhat otherwise in 1863, when the settlement was taking place in a different currency,--in steel and not in gold:-- "Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. [6]
By no means the least, however, of the treasures flung into his lap was the tie which now bound him to the Philip Goodriches, which otherwise would never have been possible. [9]
I throw in the land, because it would otherwise have stood idle: the thing generally raised on city land is taxes. [4]
The dresses of the ladies were stained and soiled with dust and damp, but otherwise they seemed little the worse for the adventure, save that Mrs. Llyn was shaken, and her face was pale. [11]
Here and there the individual is sacrificed who otherwise would be saved --if it were expedient. [11]
At that time, the ignorance of Englishmen, friendly or otherwise, about America, was infinite: they knew very little of us, and that little wrong. [6]
He really spent the greater part of the next day in hunting up the owner of an apartment that had neither steam heat nor an elevator, but was otherwise perfect, and trying to get him to take less than the agent asked. [8]
As fishing was the friend of thinking, therefore he fished in Seely's Eddy, saw Fleda Druse run the Carillon Rapids, saved her from drowning, and would have brought her in pride and peace to her own home, but that she decreed otherwise. [11]
In spite of the fact I have noted, that I had lost a certain zest for results, to keep busy seemed to be the only way to relieve my mind of an otherwise intolerable pressure: and I worked sometimes far into the evening. [9]
When this happens the consequences are striking,--some of them desirable and some far otherwise. [6]
The indentation of the central disc and of the surrounding zones of the ocellus, in both species of peacock, speaks plainly in favour of this view, and is otherwise inexplicable. [1]
I am getting the bulliest offers for books and almanacs; am flooded with lecture invitations, and one periodical offers me $6,000 cash for 12 articles, of any length and on any subject, treated humorously or otherwise. [5]
He has inherited the beautiful Florette's hair and eyes; otherwise he looks like his father. [10]
These persons apprehend that, in consequence, you may not support the new State government there as you otherwise would. [7]
It is lucky that you have run about so much and are so thin, otherwise you might stick fast on the way. [10]
We only know that to produce the one or the other action, people combine in a certain formation in which they all take part, and we say that this is so because it is unthinkable otherwise, or in other words that it is a law. [2]
It was impossible that this should be otherwise. [5]
I wondered greatly that such a foible should crop out in a man of otherwise sound sense and plain ability. [9]
It seemed plain that one so loved and praised and honored of all men as Conrad was, could not be otherwise than happy. [5]
It was well that Mrs. Hawkins held the purse otherwise the treasure would have lasted but a very little while. [5]
The fact is that I,--for it is myself who am speaking,--have recently arrived at the age of threescore years and twenty,--fourscore years we may otherwise call it. [6]
And the fact that I did it for him gave me a standing I should not otherwise have had . [9]
I am sure that he would never reproach me, even if things went wrong, but--the day might come when--when he would wish that it had been otherwise. [9]
It grieves me that he should have a secret from me, and sometimes it spoils my sleep, thinking of it, but I will put it out of my mind; it shall not trouble my happiness, which is otherwise full to overflowing. [5]
I'm laying for that Encyclopedical Scotchman--and he'll need to lock the door behind him, when he comes in; otherwise when he hears my proposed tariff his skin will probably crawl away with him. [5]
There was some talk of burying him on the mountain, but the friends decided otherwise, and the remains, with much difficulty, were got down to Asheville and there interred. [4]
First we must take a supporting work called a boulevard, and which was otherwise nameless, before we could assault the great bastille. [5]
We shall have success if we truly will success, not otherwise. [6]
It has a straw through it; you pull this out, and it leaves a flue, otherwise there would be no draught, not even as much as there is to a nail. [5]
You being a stranger, how could you do otherwise? [5]
She was rather stout than otherwise, and she was not pious; moreover, she was not anxious on Jim's account. [5]
Hawkins was to stand by with the bottle, calculate the doses, watch the effects, make notes of results, and otherwise assist in the preparation. [5]
Occasionally, an original spurt in rhyme adds variety to an otherwise monotonous performance. [6]

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