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Indeed   /ɪndˈid/   Listen
Indeed

adverb
1.
In truth (often tends to intensify).  Synonym: so.  "It is very cold indeed" , "Was indeed grateful" , "Indeed, the rain may still come" , "He did so do it!"
2.
(used as an interjection) an expression of surprise or skepticism or irony etc..






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"Indeed" Quotes from Famous Books



... good-by and started back to New York, she had no idea what part that first incident of their arrival would play in the children's vacation at Bellaire. In the care of Mrs. Guy Dunbar, otherwise Audrey Harris, sister to Cleo's father, the girls were indeed well placed and safely established, but Bellaire, being a mountain town near New York, possessed many possibilities for exploration, and at this delightful task the girls determined to set out promptly, for even vacation is ...
— The Girl Scouts at Bellaire - Or Maid Mary's Awakening • Lilian C. McNamara Garis

... youth, and his diaries, as his granddaughter now recalled, showed that he had passed through a brief phase of anatomical ardor before his attention was diverted to super-sensual problems. It had indeed seemed to Paulina, as she scanned those early pages, that they revealed a spontaneity, a freshness of feeling somehow absent from his later lucubrations—as though this one emotion had reached him directly, the others through some intervening ...
— Crucial Instances • Edith Wharton

... show you a complete list when I unpack my things—will, if left invested, provide you with a moderate income for a single man. Indeed, with your Spartan tastes, you might live in what you would consider luxury. As usual, however, in such cases, the securities are not readily marketable, and your interest in some ventures could hardly be summarily realized at any sacrifice. The whole is ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss

... "Indeed! And may I ask who is that little man, with the dreadfully sad countenance, walking by the old ...
— Best Short Stories • Various

... and sent hospitably out to try and place them at the Elephant. But the Elephant was full, and the Russian Court was full too. Then the landlord of the Crown-Prince bethought himself of a new hotel, of the second class, indeed, but very nice, where they might get rooms, and after the delay of an hour, they got a carriage and drove away from the Crown-Prince, where the landlord continued to the last as benevolent as if they had been a profit instead of a loss ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells


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