Partly

Famous quotes containing the word partly:

“The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“What’s done we partly may compute,
But know not what’s resisted.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“He told me that the Indians were nearly all gone to the sea-board and to Massachusetts, partly on account of the smallpox—of which they are very much afraid—having broken out in Oldtown.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)