1 The ostensible reason why Ahab did not go on board of the whaler we had spoken was this: the wind and sea betokened storms.
2 But, while he was making this ostensible sacrifice to general considerations, Magua never lost sight of his individual motives.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27 3 I own that your question embarrasses me, Valentine, for I cannot say that the count has rendered me any ostensible service.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 57. In the Lucerne Patch. 4 Proceedings can't be prevented from moving forward unless there are some at least ostensible reasons given.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContext Highlight In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter 5 Each turned ostensibly to say--O whatever came handy--to his neighbour.
6 Then the novel, like gossip, becomes at last vicious, and, like gossip, all the more vicious because it is always ostensibly on the side of the angels.
7 He had often come up here without stating his purpose to his mother; but this was the first time that he had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness 8 Then with a red head of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a beggar.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP