not result in a jingle; but in all our instances the two adverbs either qualify different words, or qualify the same word at different times. Thus, in the Huxley sentence, unquestionably either qualifies is, or qualifies true only after largely has qualified it: it is not the (universal) truth, but the partial truth, of the proposition that is unquestionable.
When the traffic in our strects becomes entirely mechanically propelled.–Times.
He lived practically exclusively on milk.–E. F. Benson.
Critics would probably decidedly disagree.–Hutton.
The children are functionally mentally defective.–Times.
What is practically wholly and entirely the British commerce and trade.–Times.
...who answered, usually monosyllabically,...–E. F. Benson.
The policy of England towards Afghanistan is, as formerly, entirely friendly.–Times.
Money spent possibly unwisely, probably illegally, and certainly hastily. Times.
The deer are necessarily closely confined to definite areas.–Times.
We find Hobbes's view...tolerably effectively combated.—Morley.
Great mental endowments do not, unhappily, necessarily involve a passion for obscurity.–H. G. Wells.
The proposition of Descartes is unquestionably largely true.–Huxley
2. Alliteration
Alliteration is not much affected by modern prose writers of any experience; it is a novice's toy. The antithetic variety has probably seen its best days, and the other instances quoted are doubtless to be attributed to negligence.
I must needs trudge at every old beldam's bidding and every young minx's maggot.–Scott.
Onward glided Dame Ursula, now in glimmer and now in gloom.—Scott.
I have seen her in the same day as changeful as a marmozet, and as stubborn as a mule.–Scott.
Thus, in consequence of the continuance of that grievance, the means of education at the disposal of the Protestants and Presbyterians were stunted and sterilized.–Balfour.
A gaunt well with a shattered pent-house dwarfed the dwelling.–H. G. Wells.
