inly
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of inly
before 900; Middle English inliche, Old English inlīce. See in, -ly
Example Sentences
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Of new-born woe it feels more inly smart:
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
The hearth-stone from which thou risest, never more, I inly feel, will these feet press.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
But none so inly sorrow'd of all that wavering crew, As the bold Margrave Iring, the fearless Danish knight; This soon he prov'd before them by deeds of manly might.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
At the sight wept inly the faithful Rudeger.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Then inly was Sir Siegfried both well and ill apaid.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
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