cheerly

Things are never quickly done at sea, unless they are done with a will, or "cheerly," as the sailor's word is -- that is, cheerfully.

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856

        So that love might wear cheerly, the master away;

Poems and Fragments 2006

        So that love might wear cheerly, the master away;

Poems and Fragments 2006

The lamp-light through the rafters cheerly spread,

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

“Ho! the fair wind! oh-ye-ho cheerly, men!” the crew singing for joy, that so promising an event should so soon have falsified the evil portends preceding it.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

A slight fear occasionally rose, to be suppressed on a second thought; and evening advanced while yet their hearts were cheerly and at rest.

Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee

The fire is burning cheerly bright, the room is snug and warm,

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various

Spin on cheerly, little daughter, till your needful task is done,

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Pale and wan but cheerly smiling on its lonely sheltered dwelling,

Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century Edmund O. Jones

The piper play'd cheerly, the cruisie burn'd bright;

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various