"wholly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A thorough search of the room failed to reveal an electric outlet; even the service for the clock and the calendar came through the wall behind the encased instruments, wholly concealed.
- Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.
- True, if you looked closely, the heavy cosmetics only provided a grotesque and garish contrast to the underlying pallor, and powder did not wholly conceal the ugly dark bruise around the mouth.
- Tumbled-down blocks and twisted girders could not wholly conceal the paths and corridors he had known as a boy.
- He lifted his cup and emptied it at a draught, while she watched him with a tenseness which she could not wholly conceal.
- The man who spoke was thick and powerful, and the nasal bar of his iron halfhelm did not wholly conceal his lack of a nose.
- During the whole of this time, and when the poor creature often bore about her marks of ill-usage and violence which she could not wholly conceal, she was a constant attendant at our little church.
- I do not think he would recognize these fruits wholly concealed in their own skins.
- Only a few of the many masks wholly conceal actors' faces, but the transformations worked by them are magical.
- Those were not the eyes of a decrepit old man; they were young and clear and bright: of a luminous grey-blue, with heavy lids that could not wholly conceal the humorous twinkle in the eyes, nor yet the kindly, searching glance which was fixed on Fleurette.
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