How To Use vulgarly In A Sentence
- Though vulgarly called a "Negress," her skin was almost as fair as a Saxon's; and because of the mingling of Negro blood -- more beautiful in color. Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.
- The latter, which was made of "abaca," the fibre of a banana, vulgarly called "Manilla hemp," although recommended on account of its great elasticity, was not of much use on board ship. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
- The columns were of different substances; some of handsome marble, others of rough stone meanly plastered over, with dissimilar capitals, vulgarly cut shafts of various sizes; here with a pediment, there without, now turned upside down, then joined together by halves in the centre, and almost invariably nescient of intercolumnar rule. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
- The future will organize the exodus of whole villages, which, like those of the Hebrides in the last century, will bear with them to new worlds their Lares and Penates, their wives, families, and friends, who will lay out the church and the churchyard after the old fashion familiar to their youth, and who will not forget the palaver-house, vulgarly called pothouse or pub. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
- Though Jones had no reason to imagine the lady to have been of the vestal kind when his amour began; yet, as he was thoroughly ignorant of the town, and had very little acquaintance in it, he had no knowledge of that character which is vulgarly called a demirep; that is to say, a woman who intrigues with every man she likes, under the name and appearance of virtue; and who, though some overnice ladies will not be seen with her, is visited (as they term it) by the whole town, in short, whom everybody knows to be what nobody calls her. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- Keats might have called it, in the cellar or the back hall, more fully, but not completely, dressed, coatless, our waistcoats rakishly unbuttoned or vulgarly upstairs, our innocent trousers hanging on their gallowses, our shoes on our feet, and our physical activity not altogether unlike that demanded by a home-exerciser to reduce the abdomen. The Perfect Gentleman
- There was a sort of resting on aristocratic oars or "sculls," that were not to be too vulgarly handled. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
- The blue gum trees in the neighbourhood were extremely fine, whilst that species of eucalyptus, which is vulgarly called the apple tree, and which we had not seen since we quitted the eastern coast, again made its appearance on the flats, and of large size; as was the casuarina filifolia, growing here and there on its immediate banks. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
- Now, don't you try on any of your jokes with me, my man, or you'll find yourself in the wrong box, which is the strong box on board ship, and vulgarly called chokey! Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
- In short, she was a branchiopod, to be vulgarly precise, a water-flea. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
