Thesaurus / well
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Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFT
Before he could finish the sentence the Hole-keeper said snappishly, "Well, drop out again—quick!"
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYL
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
They ranged from moving trunks to cleaning cisterns, and, by grace of all of them, Sim was doing very well.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN
Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
The well-worn aphorism of the Frenchman, “History repeats itself,” was about to assert itself.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
All our people were well mounted, and armed with rifles, pistols, and bowie-knives.
Her eldest daughter married in America, and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT
WORDS RELATED TO WELL
- affluent
- blooming
- booming
- comfortable
- doing well
- easy
- flourishing
- fortunate
- halcyon
- in clover
- in the money
- lousy rich
- lucky
- main-line
- money to burn
- moneyed
- on top of heap
- opulent
- palmy
- prospering
- rich
- roaring
- robust
- sitting pretty
- snug
- substantial
- upper-class
- uptown
- wealthy
- well
- well-heeled
- well-off
- well-to-do
- agent
- ancestor
- ancestry
- antecedent
- author
- base
- beginning
- causality
- causation
- connection
- creator
- derivation
- determinant
- egg
- element
- embryo
- fount
- fountain
- fountainhead
- generator
- germ
- impulse
- inception
- inducement
- influence
- inspiration
- mainspring
- mother
- motive
- nucleus
- occasion
- parent
- parentage
- principle
- producer
- progenitor
- provenance
- root
- roots
- rootstock
- seed
- source
- spring
- stock
- well
- wellspring
- at once
- at the drop of a hat
- cheerfully
- eagerly
- easily
- facilely
- freely
- gladly
- hands down
- immediately
- in a jiffy
- in no time
- lightly
- no sweat
- nothing to it
- piece of cake
- promptly
- quick as a wink
- right away
- slick as whistle
- smoothly
- speedily
- straight away
- swimmingly
- unhesitatingly
- well
- willingly
- without delay
- without demur
- without difficulty
- without hesitation
- absolutely
- actually
- admittedly
- as a matter of fact
- assuredly
- authentically
- beyond doubt
- categorically
- certainly
- de facto
- easily
- for real
- genuinely
- honestly
- in actuality
- in effect
- in fact
- in point of fact
- in reality
- indeed
- indubitably
- legitimately
- literally
- no ifs ands or buts
- nothing else but
- of course
- positively
- precisely
- surely
- truly
- undoubtedly
- unmistakably
- unquestionably
- verily
- well
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