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- adverb obsolete Safely.
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- adverb obsolete
safely
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Examples
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The lorde vnethes had ridden twoo or thre miles, but that his wife had sent the olde woman to carye worde to her louer, of the departure of her husband, and that he might saufly come and lie with her in the castell, for that all the seruauntes were ridden forth with their maister, sauing one yeoman and her twoo maydes, whiche doe neuer vse to lie in her chamber.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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So, to com saufly thruh, I been Constreynet for to doodge betwene.
INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition) 1911
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Dublin as I could saufly; for at that tyme the city was greevously infested with the contagion of the pestilence. "[
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864
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