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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

Once only, and that at their last interview her eyes looked longly in his.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

Tell short stories longly and long stories shortly.

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

Moreover it was a battle of wits between the newer and weaker roads striving to create and attract business from their more longly established competitors.

From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Cumberland, Barlow

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.