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And in the Folio-only plays there are several very rare words that again are familiar to Florio: "longly", "mothy", "queasines", "roynish".

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2013

Unchallenged, glad I trod, a revenant In worlds Edenic longly lost; Or walked in spheres that sing to these, O'er space no light has crossed, Diverse as Hell's mad antiphone uptossed To Heaven's angelic chant.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton

The noisy tongue of a hollow-sounding bell roused not the bark of slumbering hound, but had all the desolation to itself, and echoed loudly and longly, then slowly, stroke by stroke, through the deserted corridors.

From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by Ross, William A.

Tell short stories longly and long stories shortly.

From The Magic City by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)

Whenever I try to communicate with my friend, I must first call up the central office, as it is briefly called and longly executed.

From The Nature of Goodness by Palmer, George Herbert