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How To Use civilly In A Sentence

• Somehow he managed to compose himself sufficiently to doff his hat to her and to say most civilly, `My lady, how nice to see you. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
• If you refer," said Meldon, "to my intention of calling civilly on Sir The Simpkins Plot
• One of the gentry he used to ferry about, a decent cove who always treated him civilly, writes letters and the sentence is commuted to transportation.
• a forfeiture of the charter grant because they exercise that oppression and persecution contrary to its first intent, and are the direct cause of contention and disunion, which is repugnant to the principal design of constituting the colony; viz. that it "May be so religiously, peaceably and civilly governed as may win and invite the natives to the Christian faith." [l47] The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut
• Governments have always claimed control over marriage, whether solemnized religiously or civilly.
• he treats his former wife civilly
• Skepsey, journeying one late afternoon up a Kentish line, had, in both senses of the word, encountered a long-limbed navvy; an intoxicated, he was compelled by his manly modesty to desire to think; whose loathly talk, forced upon the hearing of a decent old woman opposite him, passed baboonish behaviour; so much so, that Skepsey civilly intervened; subsequently inviting him to leave the carriage and receive a lesson at the station they were nearing. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
• he treats his former wife uncivilly
• Under the established law of armed conflict, he can civilly intern a captured combatant until the end of active hostilities.
• But had he taken other avenues such as civilly or perhaps gotten the police to go with him, I think this would have been a much different outcome. CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2008