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  • adverb In a literary manner.

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  • The reason the path of the Luftwaffe’s bombers can be traced literarily is that so many writers were scribbling away on the ground.

    Black Saturday 2008

  • The reason the path of the Luftwaffe’s bombers can be traced literarily is that so many writers were scribbling away on the ground.

    Black Saturday 2008

  • Alexi-stop-spleening-me! wouldn't have been found quite as amusing — not as "literarily" amusing, at least — had his gag not been belabored a dozen times a page.

    A Bag of Tired Tricks 2005

  • Alexi-stop-spleening-me! wouldn't have been found quite as amusing — not as "literarily" amusing, at least — had his gag not been belabored a dozen times a page.

    A Bag of Tired Tricks 2005

  • As literarily-inclined Chicagoans, we love to talk up our city's legacy of great writers, our top-flight journalism, our glittery new Poetry Foundation and our generally strong tradition of the written word.

    Chicago Ranks Low On 'America's Most Literate Cities' List Will Guzzardi 2011

  • As literarily-inclined Chicagoans, we love to talk up our city's legacy of great writers, our top-flight journalism, our glittery new Poetry Foundation and our generally strong tradition of the written word.

    Chicago Ranks Low On 'America's Most Literate Cities' List Will Guzzardi 2011

  • As literarily-inclined Chicagoans, we love to talk up our city's legacy of great writers, our top-flight journalism, our glittery new Poetry Foundation and our generally...

    Chicago Ranks Low On 'America's Most Literate Cities' List Will Guzzardi 2011

  • As literarily-inclined Chicagoans, we love to talk up our city s legacy of great writers, our top-flight journalism, our glittery new Poetry Foundation and our generally...

    Chicago Ranks Low On 'America's Most Literate Cities' List Will Guzzardi 2011

  • As literarily-inclined Chicagoans, we love to talk up our city's legacy of great writers, our top-flight journalism, our glittery new Poetry Foundation and our generally strong tradition of the written word.

    Chicago Ranks Low On 'America's Most Literate Cities' List Will Guzzardi 2011

  • As literarily-inclined Chicagoans, we love to talk up our city's legacy of great writers, our top-flight journalism, our glittery new Poetry Foundation and our generally...

    Chicago Ranks Low On 'America's Most Literate Cities' List Will Guzzardi 2011

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