Example Sentences

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He had no one to take care of his linen, he would not live dissolutely like other young men, and he loved Constance Weber.

From The Great German Composers by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)

To "royt" is to go about idly or dissolutely.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

He shrugged himself free from my grasp and turned away; his nervous fingers plucked unconsciously at his evening tie until it was loosened and the ends hung dissolutely over his shirt front.

From Jaffery by Locke, William John

A wisp of hair waves dissolutely across her forehead between her eyes.

From Love Conquers All by Williams, Gluyas

"I have seen," says he, "foreign ambassadors in the queen's presence laugh so dissolutely at some rare pastime or sport that hath been made there, that nothing in the world could have worse becomen them."

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy