lothly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Who least the public liberty could like, As lothly brook'd their flat servility.
From Sejanus: His Fall by Ben Jonson
His guide however encourages him, and they proceed by the "lothly lake" Avernus, "In dreadful fear amid the dreadful place."
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
Who sits beside her window Waiting to welcome him, 60 That comes so lothly toward her With his visage sick and dim.
From Poems by William Dean Howells
For there was none To prove that Panthera erred not: and indeed, When vagueness of identity I would plead, Panther himself would sometimes own as much - Yet lothly.
From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
Here he passed with her under the archway into a private room; and by the time he had deposited — so lothly — the precious burden upon a sofa, Bathsheba had opened her eyes.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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