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  • Meanwhile, the Edwards campaign a few minutes ago issued this ratherly oddly worded statement, which would suggest that yesterday's reports of their firing were premature, but also that they are likely to be on a short leash going forward:

    John Edwards and the Bloggers: Can This Marriage Be Saved? - Swampland - TIME.com 2007

  • Bummed around sunday, monday, then tuesday went swimming then to A-cad after and got ratherly er 'trollied' haha, i like that expression someone in my corridor uses it, hes wicked.

    abutterfly Diary Entry abutterfly 2007

  • I'm worn out from swimming, which we had to do as slow as possibly possible (seriously, no joke, and i think coachdemon was feeling ratherly ill ...).

    abutterfly Diary Entry abutterfly 2003

  • It struck him as being a ratherly poorly played performance.

    Simon Called Peter Robert Keable 1907

  • But looking out on the sea, -- the bay was very loud that day, I remember -- he said in his deep voice, that was like a mellow bell, and trembled ratherly, 'It's not for nothing, Nannie, that the child has the forehead of Napoleon.

    The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892

  • It was ratherly past a joke to expect me to carry a load of broken stones all the way here, when there was plenty on the spot.

    The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

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