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Dame Lovell looked with unfeigned admiration at the cabalistic characters, for such they were in her eyes, and declared them “right brave,” opining moreover that “learning was soothly a passing rare thing!”

From Mistress Margery by Holt, Emily Sarah

Fate-bidden he sought Italy?—Yea, soothly, or maybe Spurned by Cassandra's wilderment—and how then counselled we To leave his camp and give his life to make the winds a toy?

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

But I have to ken first that it is fairly and soothly.

From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

I trust soothly, to go but for a season, though mayhap a long one; but not home.

From Mistress Margery by Holt, Emily Sarah

Yet soothly, I reckon man may dwell in the world and love Christ, or he may dwell in cloister and be none of His.”

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)