lothly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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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 Hardy, Thomas
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 Aikin, Lucy
He looked up, he looked down, In hope some comfort for to win: But bare and lothly were the walls.
From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)
Who least the public liberty could like, As lothly brook'd their flat servility.
From Sejanus: His Fall by Jonson, Ben
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 Howells, William Dean
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