tolerably

He kept himself sober for the purpose--tolerably sober: not going to bed mad at six o'clock and getting up drunk at twelve.

The garden was enclosed by a tolerably low white wall, easy to climb.

It was one of his habits to come tolerably often to celebrate the offices in the chapel of the nuns of the Petit-Picpus.

Carcinoid flush cannot be reproduced by 5-HT infusion though bradykinin injection will produce a tolerably close imitation.

It was warm there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw.

He is not tolerably well, as he told me to tell papa; but he's better, very likely.

We might have got on tolerably, notwithstanding, but for two people, Miss Cathy and Joseph, the servant: you saw him, I dare say, up yonder.

The observances of the Church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

Beneath the folds of this veil of smoke, and thanks to his small size, he could advance tolerably far into the street without being seen.

He wasted a tolerably large allowance, something like three thousand francs a year, in doing nothing.

Kate and I lived on a pretty good familiar footing and agreed tolerably well, for he suspected nothing of my setting up.

But Mr Wang and his wife fared tolerably well.

In the meanwhile the hours passed, if NOT rapidly, at least tolerably.

He was tolerably eloquent. The subject of his sermon was charity.

Greece's travails seem all the odder after a recent economic record which, to judge by the basic numbers alone, looks tolerably good.

At the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois.

My neighbour struck me as bordering on repulsive; I knew, through experience, that I was tolerably attractive.

I'm tolerably intimate with him.

He perceives his delicate constitution, and the necessity of treating him tolerably.

On the whole, the Seleucids, and the other dynasties which gradually grew up, dealt tolerably with them, but there were exceptions.

The back court was surrounded by tolerably high walls, and the outlook was only on several gardens.

At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door.

And even if they were tolerably normal to start off with, the stress, the power and the glory often makes them demented in the end.

In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, shouting, but he met no one.

She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably bulky parcel on the table.

oh , she is naughty ! " i cried , perceiving the master to be tolerably sober" .

As to the language, although I can speak and read it tolerably well, it will keep me busy until my dying day.

His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad weather.

But it can be done at least tolerably well.

I feel tolerably well today.

If you ascend a ladder in a tolerably cold room, you are surprised at finding it much warmer above than below in the room.

He plays the piano tolerably well.

My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day.

She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was something which resembled a letter.

and she was tolerably able to bear his eye, and hear that he had spent half an hour with his sister the evening before his leaving London;