They had proceeded
methodically, of course, with one eye on the pounds, shillings, and pence, and the other on the object in view.
Tulkinghorn returns
methodically as he softly rubs his hands, "I should like to be assured of your acquiescence in my arrangements, Lady Dedlock."
A sailor, from time to time and quite
methodically, as a matter of routine, dropped a canvas bucket into the ocean at the end of a rope, hauled it in hand under hand, and sluiced its contents over the prostrate man.
Over all these causes of Change I am convinced that the accumulative action of Selection, whether applied
methodically and more quickly, or unconsciously and more slowly, but more efficiently, is by far the predominant Power.
So, setting about it as
methodically as men might smoke out a wasps' nest, the Martians spread this strange stifling vapour over the Londonward country.
She quietly and dreamily lowered herself into his arms, and Angel
methodically marched off with her.
Then, he pulled down the window-blinds, drew the curtains, wound up his watch, and, quite leisurely and
methodically, got into bed.
There were many trees,
methodically arranged, and some of them were of enormous height; there were animals in some of the enclosures, and they announced their presence by terrified squealings and snortings as they scented our queer, wild beasts and wilder human beings.
Captain Nemo took the ingots one by one, and arranged them
methodically in the chest, which he filled entirely.
Hitherto, indeed, he had found little difficulty in arranging his life as
methodically as he arranged his expenditure, but about this time he began to encounter experiences which were not so easy to classify.
But that was all the information concerning the ship's navigation he could steal; for Captain Doane took the observations and worked them out, to the exclusion of the mate, and Captain Doane always
methodically locked up his chart and log.
Coolly,
methodically, without haste, Tarzan drew the rope back and forth against the rough trunk of the small tree.
