The order was obeyed with alacrity, two or three of the shot seeming to take effect on the hull of their adversary: for, by the bright flashes of the guns, some white spots were perceptible on her bulwarks, which might have convinced others less Determinately superstitious, of her substantial nature.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
But titles, as I have shewn, were not always Determinately appropriated: nor was Chus the original person, who was called Zoroaster.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant
In such a frame of mind, requests are but another name for commands; and thus it happened that a second change arose upon the first, even more Determinately fatal to the young Schiller's happiness.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey