somedeal
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of somedeal
before 900; Middle English somdel, Old English sume dǣle, dative of sum dǣl some portion. See some, deal 1
Example Sentences
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Now shall I tell thee—did I not before?—that while I am a maid untouched, my wisdom, and somedeal of might, abideth with me, and only so long.
From Wood Beyond the World by William Morris
In Ethiopia all the rivers and all the waters be trouble, and they be somedeal salt for the great heat that is there.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
Claverhouse laughed a little stern laugh like a man that is forced to laugh at himself, yet is somedeal proud of what he hears.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
And in speech lispit he somedeal; But that set him richt wonder weel.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by David Masson
For of fire he taketh red colour in the overmost part, and of earth green in the nethermost, and of the air a manner of brown colour, and of water somedeal blue in the middle.
From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele
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