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- adverb In a way that is not
smooth .
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Examples
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Now, however, she went moping about the house as though she were a victim of true love, condemned to run unsmoothly forever — as though her passion for Mr. Saul were too much for her, and she were waiting in patience till death should relieve her from the cruelty of her parents.
The Claverings 2005
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Things did not always go smoothly -- very often very unsmoothly and stormily between the sisters, but still anything of importance that happened to Arsinoe, whether it were good or evil, she must at once tell
The Emperor — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867
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Things did not always go smoothly -- very often very unsmoothly and stormily between the sisters, but still anything of importance that happened to Arsinoe, whether it were good or evil, she must at once tell
The Emperor — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867
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Things did not always go smoothly -- very often very unsmoothly and stormily between the sisters, but still anything of importance that happened to Arsinoe, whether it were good or evil, she must at once tell
The Emperor — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867
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Things did not always go smoothly -- very often very unsmoothly and stormily between the sisters, but still anything of importance that happened to Arsinoe, whether it were good or evil, she must at once tell
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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Things did not always go smoothly -- very often very unsmoothly and stormily between the sisters, but still anything of importance that happened to Arsinoe, whether it were good or evil, she must at once tell
The Emperor — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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Now, however, she went moping about the house as though she were a victim of true love, condemned to run unsmoothly forever -- as though her passion for Mr. Saul were too much for her, and she were waiting in patience till death should relieve her from the cruelty of her parents.
The Claverings Anthony Trollope 1848
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