Example Sentences

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To the foregoing purport, the Minister speaking, as directed by the Rubric, to the People, selectly represented in the present instance by G. and G. above mentioned.

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles

Insistently conventional, selectly ordinary, in appearance, the stick with a pig-skin handle hanging from his left arm, he had studied the doll with a deepening interest.

From Cytherea by Hergesheimer, Joseph

Nature rarer uses yellow    Than another hue; Saves she all of that for sunsets, —    Prodigal of blue, Spending scarlet like a woman,    Yellow she affords Only scantly and selectly,    Like a lover's words.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series Two by Todd, Mabel Loomis