fairily
Americanadverb
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Origin of fairily
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V. At length burst in the argent revelry, With plume, tiara, and all rich array, Numerous as shadows haunting fairily The brain, new stuff'd, in youth, with triumphs gay40 Of old romance.
From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by M. (Margaret) Robertson
Outside there was a vivid rose of sunset behind the cold hills of fir, and the long reaches of snowy fields glowed fairily pink in the western light.
From The Golden Road by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Refreshments were offered to us as to friends, and we lunched fairily upon little dishes of rose leaves, delicately preserved, with all their fragrance, in a "lucent sirup."
From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
Mrs. Fontenette gave a faint gasp of impatience and left us at a run, tripping fairily across the rough street at the only point visible to those on the veranda.
From Strong Hearts by George Washington Cable
Cease, cease, Ellen, my little one, Warbling so fairily close to my ear; Why should you choose, of all songs that are haunting me, This that I made for your mother to hear?
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Bliss Carman
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