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Simply

adverb

And nothing more. Synonyms: but, just, merely, only. "It is simply a matter of time" , "Just a scratch" , "He was only a child" , "Hopes that last but a moment"

Absolutely. Synonym: just. "He was just grand as Romeo" , "It's simply beautiful!"

Absolutely; altogether; really.

In a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment. Synonym: plainly. "They lived very simply"

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"Simply" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mill is simply a large hard stone to which a rocking motion is given by manual power by means of the bamboo handles while the ore is crushed between the ...

— Getting Gold • J. C. F. Johnson

... He simply and shortly narrated the adventure of the morning; but he did not mention that Vargrave had been the cause of the injury his new guest had sustained. Now this event had served to make a mutual and kindred impression on Evelyn and Maltravers. The humanity of the latter, natural and commonplace ...

— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book IV • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... Shakespeare, after describing in his prologue to Troilus the progress of the Trojan war before his story opened, added that his 'prologue' presented itself 'arm'd,' not to champion 'author's pen or actor's voice,' but simply to announce in a guise befitting the warlike subject-matter that the play began in the middle of the conflict between Greek and Trojan, and not at the beginning. These words of Shakespeare put out of court any interpretation of Shakespeare's play that would represent it as a contribution ...

— A Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimiles • Sidney Lee

... designs on the surface of pieces of bamboo is done very simply, but none the less effectively. Among the bamboo articles generally decorated in the way to be described are the native drinking-cup, the tobacco-box, and tubes for carrying flint and steel and all sorts ...

— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall

... she gasped. "What d'you think? I'll give you three guesses. Father and Mother are coming over to England for Easter. I haven't seen them since last September, and I'm simply off my head. Isn't it ripping? And that's not all, by any means. Come up to the ivy room, Loveday mine. I want to tell you all about it without those kids hanging about listening to every word ...

— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil

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