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  • And the Lord of the Underworld, Aiedoneus, had terror in hell, and leapt from his throne in that terror and cried aloud, lest the world be cloven above him by Poseidon, Shaker of earth, and his dwelling-place be laid bare to mortals and immortals -- grim halls, and vast, and lothly to the gods.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • He lifted her bodily off the ground, and smoothed down the folds of her dress as a child might have taken a storm-beaten bird and arranged its ruffled plumes, and bore her along the pavement to the King's Arms Inn. Here he passed with her under the archway into a private room; and by the time he had deposited -- so lothly -- the precious burden upon a sofa, Bathsheba had opened her eyes.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • His guide however encourages him, and they proceed by the "lothly lake"

    Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822

  • Sir, in fine Seeing how lothly oppofite I flood To his unnat'ral purpofe, in fell motion W'ith his prepared fword he charges home My unprovided body, lanc'd my arm;

    Works 1795

  • A fchool-houfe, with accommodations for the fchool-mailer, of the value of 70 1. lothly, A houfe for the preacher, of the value of 60 1.

    Observations upon the present state of the Scotch fisheries [electronic resource] : and the improvement of the interior parts of the Highlands : being an essay on these subjects, given in to the Highland Society of Scotland ... Highland Society of Scotland 1791

  • 3.39.76: With lothly chere, lord Phebus gan behold:

    "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" 1557

  • He lifted her bodily off the ground, and smoothed down the folds of her dress as a child might have taken a storm-beaten bird and arranged its ruffled plumes, and bore her along the pavement to the King’s Arms Inn. Here he passed with her under the archway into a private room; and by the time he had deposited — so lothly — the precious burden upon a sofa, Bathsheba had opened her eyes.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • _ “Pauo/the pecocke is a very fayre byrde/and it hath a longe necke, and hath on his hede feders lyke a lytell crowne/he hathe a longe tayle the whyche he setteth on hye very rycheli, but whan he loketh on hys lothly fete, he lateth his tayle sinke.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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