plaguily

A bed at one corner, with coarse curtains tacked up at the feet to the ceiling; because the curtain-rings were broken off; but a coverlid upon it with a cleanish look, though plaguily in tatters, and the corners tied up in tassels, that the rents in it might go no farther.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

The Lord Treasurer defers writing his letter to them, or else they would be plaguily confounded by this time.

The Journal to Stella 2003

“You shall not be excused”: however, I hope they will forget it; for if it should happen, all the puppies hereabouts will throng to hear me, and expect something wonderful, and be plaguily baulked; for I shall preach plain honest stuff.

The Journal to Stella 2003

It was to entertain Buys, the Dutch Envoy, who speaks English well enough: he was plaguily politic, telling a thousand lies, of which none passed upon any of us.

The Journal to Stella 2003

Gad, sir, though to please you I was in a passion, yet my mouth watered plaguily at the gold.

The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother 1999

Pray Heaven that this be Don _Diego_ -- If I shou'd be trick'd now -- Ha! my Heart misgives me plaguily -- within there! stop the Marriage -- Run, Sirrah, call all my

The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre

I confess the gazettes do but afford a soup-maigre, whip-syllabub sort of narrative, accurate enough, perhaps in the main, but plaguily incommunicative of particulars: for instance, in the recent affair at

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1

And three a bullet took O! But three times three died plaguily

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

Oho, what o 'yon fierce-fingered rogue, good fellows, what o' yon knave -- 'a did twist my yeres plaguily and wring 'em roguishly, 'a did!

The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915

There was something plaguily odd about this young gentleman's manner.

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912