bluntly

The next day I met him again in the office of the Palace Hotel, and seeing him about to repeat the disagreeable performance of the day before, intercepted him in a doorway, with a friendly salutation, and bluntly requested an explanation of his altered manner.

Still regarding him sharply but not unsympathetically the man of science bluntly inquired:

She held herself as erect, told everyone her opinion as candidly, loudly, and bluntly as ever, and her whole bearing seemed a reproach to others for any weakness, passion, or temptation- the possibility of which she did not admit.

"I can diagnose the case more bluntly if you wish," he retorted.

"I have not yet been pained by finding any excessive talent in Middlemarch," said Lydgate, bluntly.

"It is embarrassing," he said bluntly. "But you refuse to see my point of view, so there is no use in discussing it.

"Have you no opinion to express?" the doctor asked bluntly.

Dinner being ended, and the company retired into the garden, Mr Western, who was thoroughly convinced of the certainty of what his sister had told him, took Mr Allworthy aside, and very bluntly proposed a match between Sophia and young Mr Blifil.

Thus was I bluntly dismissed from the poop, only to find Mugridge sleeping soundly from the morphine I had given him.

"You seem to have but little plunder,[*] stranger, for one who is far abroad," bluntly interrupted the emigrant, as if he had a reason for wishing to change the conversation.

Pausing to turn a page, the lad saw her looking and, with boyish good nature offered half his paper, saying bluntly, "want to read it?

He thought bluntly that there was naught to be ashamed of, yet smilingly handed her his tattered long cloak, which she blushingly put on, and forthwith recovered her spirits directly.