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Most villanously; like a pedant that keeps a school
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Cyprus, where shee was villanously abused by certaine base wretches.
The Decameron 2004
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Iohn Coote of Wiueton: and the master and mariners which were in the saide shippe, they villanously slue, among whom they put to death one Simon Andrew, the godsonne, nephew, and seruant of the foresaid Simon Durham.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In reuenge 1551 whereof not long after, the saide Lieu-tenant with some of his company, was villanously slaine by certaine roysters, which were once seruants to the parties beheaded.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In reuenge 1551 whereof not long after, the saide Lieu-tenant with some of his company, was villanously slaine by certaine roysters, which were once seruants to the parties beheaded.
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I believe that that paper purports to be an instrument by which I should be villanously defrauded if it were allowed to be held as good.
Can You Forgive Her? 1993
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The doctor had chaffed me so villanously all the way back that my disappointment and mortification had vanished, and had given place to a feeling of resentment.
The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille
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Candle in a Snuff, and his Memory will always stink, which might have ever lived in honourable Repute, had not he been a notorious Traytor, and most impiously and villanously bely'd that blessed Martyr King
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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The paper in question had fallen into his client's hands in some way or another, and he was villanously using this advantage to wrong his neighbor.
The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 Various
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Look at them villanously treed out at the "Noah's Ark" and elsewhere; what are they but eight-and-six-penny worth of discomfort!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841 Various
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