Example Sentences

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But it is also savagely, and savingly, comic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also, savingly, to her children's "suits," and party dresses, and pic-nic hats, and double button gloves.

From Real Folks by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

That was all very well for those who would savingly know the Lord.

From Love's Final Victory by Horatio

These are the principles of religion, and are so nearly conjoined together, that the one cannot be truly without the other, much less savingly.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

I have found many more savingly impressed under my own ministry than I knew of.

From The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Bonar, Andrew A.