deedily

_your_ Master's time: getting through with things quickly and "deedily" is

Stray Thoughts for Girls Lucy H. M. Soulsby

When first he ventured out and down to the Forum Romanum, he hobbled between two sticks, but two nundinae later he was getting along deedily on one stick, quickly discarded.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

When first he ventured out and down to the Forum Romanum, he hobbled between two sticks, but two nundinae later he was getting along deedily on one stick, quickly discarded.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

The appearance of the little sitting – room as they entered, was tranquillity itself; Mrs. Bates, deprived of her usual employment, slumbering on one side of the fire, Frank Churchill, at a table near her, most deedily occupied about her spectacles, and Jane Fairfax, standing with her back to them, intent on her pianoforte.

Emma 2004

CHAPTER X The appearance of the little sitting-room as they entered, was tranquillity itself; Mrs. Bates, deprived of her usual employment, slumbering on one side of the fire, Frank Churchill, at a table near her, most deedily occupied about her spectacles, and Jane Fairfax, standing with her back to them, intent on her pianoforte.

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

As I sat there watching that old play David plucked my sleeve to ask what I was looking at so deedily; and when I told him he ran eagerly to the window, but he reached it just too late to see the lady who was to become his mother.

The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens 1898

She rolled round her face, remained a moment looking deedily aslant at him; then with a slight curl of the lip sprang to her feet, and exclaiming abruptly "I must mizzle!" walked off quickly homeward.

Jude the Obscure 1896

She rolled round her face, remained a moment looking deedily aslant at him; then with a slight curl of the lip sprang to her feet, and exclaiming abruptly "I must mizzle!" walked off quickly homeward.

Jude the Obscure 1894

The appearance of the little sitting-room as they entered, was tranquillity itself; Mrs. Bates, deprived of her usual employment, slumbering on one side of the fire, Frank Churchill, at a table near her, most deedily occupied about her spectacles, and Jane Fairfax, standing with her back to them, intent on her pianoforté.

Emma 1815

-They amuse themselves very comfortably in the eveng*-by netting; they are each about a rabbit net, & sit as deedily to it, side by side, as any two Uncle Franks could do.

Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796