Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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rely . - To raise; elevate.
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Examples
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This enforced reducement of the Collony into fewer bodies, together with the troble of warre then in hande, caused the year following a slender harvest to be reaped, wherby we weare constrained to relye upon hopes for our reliefe by shippinge out of Englande, and by trading with the more remote
Colonial Records of Virginia Various
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For they would by no meanes relye upon generall promises because they were not ignorant how that which concerneth all in generall is by no man in speciall regarded.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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You may depend on my earliest advices, & that they will be such as you may entirely relye on.
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I am no stranger to your integrity & can relye upon it.
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You may depend on my earliest advices, & that they will be such as you may entirely relye on.
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Sir, — I haue none, upon whom I cann relye, butt your selfe, beeinge, as you know, a strainger in your contry, & to those that are theyr.
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Rev'd & DEAR Sir, — I am asbara'd to look over the date of - your kind letter of 4* of May last, which came to my hands the 1 November following, yet I can relye on your goodness for pardon in owning it so late, while you consider how much I am ingrost in the care of two of the King's provinces, sometimes I fear too much to tbe neglect of the great business of the King of Kings; and yet I would humbly hope I have an eye to HI? glory in the whole of my administration.
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