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  • Was Elizabeth and Margaret Meagher, how sweetlie they did play

    Meagher's Children 1952

  • And al the faire riuers were ful of other flowers sweetlie growing among their greene and fresh leaues.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • New-Yorkere, and ever callyth a calf a cäff, and a laugh a läff, which soundeth far more sweetlie, even like the _lingua Toscana in bocca

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

  • How sweetlie the Moon shines through my Casement to-night!

    Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary Anne Manning 1843

  • Centuries_, doe affirme thatt not to bloshe is a sign of noble bloods and gentyl lineage -- for itt may bee planely seene that every base-borne churle's daughter blosheth, if thatt yee give hir a poke under ye chinn, whereas ye countesse of highe degre only smileth sweetlie and sayth merily, '_Aha! messire -- tu voys que mon joly couer est endormy_!' for shee well knoweth that a gentyllman, like ye kynge, can doe noe wronge.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

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