What is "uncommonly"

Usage examples of "uncommonly".

He had been attacked, flung into a pit by men who had been uncommonly like Panchez and the mestizo guards who had been hired to scour the jungle and keep trouble away.

It was a most uncommonly rapid, skilful, efficient, seamanlike operation, almost without words, certainly without loud, harsh, angry words, and in the midst of his intense frustration Jack was aware of it: but rapid though it was it still took time, and there was the Spartan fleeting away into the thick grey weather ahead.

Montana had been uncommonly warm and relatively snowless that winter, but Paris was wet and freezing.

Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonly well just now, when I was teazing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at Meryton?

Involuntarily but unobtrusively, under cover of the little tubbed trees that hedged the terrasse apart from the square, Duchemin did likewise, and so discovered, or for the first time appreciated, the cause of the uncommonly early dusk that loured over Nant.

At that point he remembered the rats, and it struck the Undermaster rather forcibly that a rat large enough to make a sound heard from that distance must be an uncommonly large specimen of the species.

Lady Macbeth, which is perhaps just as well, since the name of the wife of the historic Macbeth was the uncommonly uneuphonious one of Gruoch.

Even by the exacting standards of Aristos, he was uncommonly handsome.

She is uncommonly clean in the run aft, she has enough bluffing off in the bows to keep her dry, and the lower berths are most of them double.

It was very fortunate for him indeed that the Sybarite happened to have been built for pleasure yachting, with deadlights uncommonly large for the sake of air and light, else he would have been obliged to run the risk of opening the door to the saloon and fighting his way out and up to the deck.

A girl in a light dustcoat, her red hair streaming in the warm night wind, came hurrying down the steps, breathing uncommonly hard for such slight exertion.

He had been uncommonly lucky that the frightened Lantian one-namers had not betrayed him.

But a step in the required direction it was beyond yea or nay and both monetarily and mentally it contained no reflection on his dignity in the smallest and it often turned in uncommonly handy to be handed a cheque at a muchneeded moment when every little helped.

Robert Burns, the chief of Scottish poets: in his person he was tall and sinewy, and of such strength and activity, that Scott alone, of all the poets I have seen, seemed his equal: his forehead was broad, his hair black, with an inclination to curl, his visage uncommonly swarthy, his eyes large, dark and lustrous, and his voice deep and manly.

Lily had known without being told that the heartsick and love worn Ginger required this lace- and chintz-rich, uncommonly easeful room with its skirted dressing table and silly tuft of dressing-table chair tucked into the voluminous skirt, and the rows of pretty silver boxes set across the mirrored top to contain her cotton puffs and her eyebrow pencils and her many, many shades of rouge, which blushed from the least to the deepest of reds.