Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In sundry ways; variously.
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- adverb In sundry ways; variously.
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- adverb In
sundry ways;variously .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Accomplishment of Singing, under the auspicious smile of the goddess, take possession, sundrily, of her children; and the two great arts of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various
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Breitmann had entered the employ of the admiral for the very purpose for which M. Ferraud had journeyed sundrily into the cellar and beaten futilely on the chimney.
A Splendid Hazard Harold MacGrath 1901
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Ruth stared into the painted face, now sundrily cracked by the coursing tears.
The Ragged Edge Harold MacGrath 1901
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Ruth spread out the ruffled skirt, sundrily torn and soiled.
The Ragged Edge Harold MacGrath 1901
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Her clothes were soiled and crumpled, sundrily torn; her hair was in disorder, and tendrils hung about her temples and forehead -- thick black hair, full of purple tones in the sunlight -- for she had not surrendered peacefully to this incarceration.
The Place of Honeymoons Harold MacGrath 1901
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To be free of outward distraction, he shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly, with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face; the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony; the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms, now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire.
The Ragged Edge Harold MacGrath 1901
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