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- adverb In a
dewy manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then all melted away dewily in the grey air: all was silent.
Ulysses 2003
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But that was a beauty one hardly sees twice in a lifetime -- so perfect in outline, under snowy veils and blossoms, the dark eyes so softly, dewily dark, the white brow whiter for its tendril-like rings of raven hair; and where had I ever seen groom so stately, so lofty, so proud?
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various
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"It was like this," she said, looking round-eyed and dewily solemn like
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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They stood then smiling across a chasm of the diffidence of youth, she fumbling at the great fur pelt out of which her face flowered so dewily.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928
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Then all melted away dewily in the grey air: all was silent.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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The sun is pleasantly hot at midday, and the mornings and evenings are dewily cool.
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Her breath came and went quickly -- her eyes shone dewily like stars in a summer haze, -- she was deeply interested.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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The head of the unhappy man sank upon his breast; his eyes, dewily suffused, were cast upon the floor, and he spoke nothing, or inarticulately, in reply.
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia William Gilmore Simms 1838
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The prose this other self would write would be sharp and coiled, deadly like a snake; not all soggy and attenuated like a garden hose, spritzing dewily, indiscriminately, over thorns and flowers.
Harper's Magazine 2010
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No language could give an adequate idea of the marvelous bewitchment and beauty of their united movements, and as they flew over the dark smooth turf, with the flower-laden trees drooping dewily about them, and the yellow moonbeams like melted amber beneath their noiseless feet, ... while the pale sapphire and white radiations from the dome, sparkling upon them aureole-wise, gave them the appearance of glittering birds circling through a limitless space of luminous and never-clouded ether.
Ardath Marie Corelli 1889
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