Citations:clearly


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Now was Christian much affected with his deliverance from all the dangers of his solitary way; which dangers, though he feared them more before, yet he saw them more clearly now, because the light of the day made them conspicuous to him.


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * As soon as we came clear of the trees, which blinded us before, we saw clearly what had been the case, and how Friday had disengaged the poor guide, though we did not presently discern what kind of creature it was he had killed.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I had before regarded my promise with a gloomy despair as a thing that, with whatever consequences, must be fulfilled; but I now felt as if a film had been taken from before my eyes and that I for the first time saw clearly.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Scrooge could not feel it himself, but this was clearly the case; for though the Ghost sat perfectly motionless, its hair, and skirts, and tassels, were still agitated as by the hot vapour from an oven.
 * The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.
 * Topper had clearly got his eye upon one of Scrooge's niece's sisters, for he answered that a bachelor was a wretched outcast, who had no right to express an opinion on the subject.