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- adverb dialectal
early
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Examples
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"They're comin 'airly," said John Watson, slowly, as he shook down the bag of seed wheat that he had just filled; "but I guess they are the best judge of whether they can make a livin 'outside any longer.
Purple Springs 1921
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The Beethoven piece is tense and the familiar rhythmic stabs at the start (the 'ba-ba-ba-BUUM') is completely different to the first movement of Mahler's which is airly, light, non-rhythmic and starts so quietly, building up so slowly that it's hard to even pinpoint when it actually begins.
Audio Vision, Part 1 Ben Abraham 2009
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"[F] airly run of the mill, lacking the sharp twists and expert pacing that characterize Baldacci's fiction at its best."
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In short, am not nearly so sanguine as you, Kevin, that the problems can be airly dismissed.
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F airly soon after In the Shadow of the Law was published, my editor started talking to me about the next novel.
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F airly soon after In the Shadow of the Law was published, my editor started talking to me about the next novel.
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F airly soon after In the Shadow of the Law was published, my editor started talking to me about the next novel.
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F airly soon after In the Shadow of the Law was published, my editor started talking to me about the next novel.
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Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days
Archive 2007-09-01 Gumbo Lily 2007
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Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days
When the Frost is on the Punkin... Gumbo Lily 2007
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