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Thora laughed, stood straight up, and drew her dress taut, and put forward two small feet, trigly protected by high-laced boots.

From An Orkney Maid by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

We entered a neat clean room, and met a kind reception from 'the Mistress,' who was as trigly dressed as if she had been expecting company.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 by Chambers, William

He was a little man, trigly built, with a bullet head under a closely cropped thatch of white.

From The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest by Footner, Hulbert

Ramsay, II, 526, uses the adv. trigly in the sense of "proudly." 69Twist, sb. twig, branch.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

Her petticoats were very short, her feet trigly shod, and while unmarried she wore a most picturesque headdress of white muslin or linen, set a little backward over her always luxuriant hair.

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston