10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMELILY»
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comelily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
comelily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The History of Don-Quichote: The First Parte
'HQQOUUY and comelily decltt, as now out Court-dame: ' " with all the rare and
outlandish inuentions that idle" nesse and euriositie hathfound out. Then, were
thea"morous conceit: of the mind, simply and sincerely de'oflliuered and ...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1617
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Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early ...
an eloquent wench, which shall furnish out both meter and matter, that which
could not comelily be said in his person."39 The sense that not everything could "
comelily" be said in Richard's person, that the tragic and historic doings of kings ...
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Johnson's English Dictionary
COMELILY", kSm'-le-!e. ad. In a graceful or defeat manner. Sherwood.
COMELINESS, kum'-le-nes. n.s. Grace; beauty; digritr. Sidnry. COMELY$, kftm'-le
. 165. a. [from become] Graceful; decent. Bacon. Decent; according to propriety.
Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chambers, Henry John Todd, 1834
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Dictionnary of the English Language with Numerous ...
Comelily.* adv. [from comely.'] In a graceful or decent manner, [honeste- ment.]
Sherwood. Co'meliness. n. s. [from comely.'] Grace ; beauty ; dignity. It signifies
something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than ...
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A French and English dictionary
Deceleroent : m. A detection, disclosing, dif- eovering, bewraying. Deceler. To
discover, detect, disclose, lay open, bewray. Deceleur : m. A detector, disclofer,
discoverer, btwrayer of. Deccmment : as Deccntemcnt. Decently ; seemly,
comelily.
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The works of John Robinson: pastor of the pilgrim fathers
Secondarily and immediately, to the commonwealth, and public governors of the
same : who, therefore, weighing their office, and what concerneth them do
accordingly, in the Low Countries, comelily and in good order tie that knot of that
...
John Robinson, William Allen, John Waddington, 1851
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The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-errant Don ...
and ill to hill, with theirvhans sometimes pleated, '* sometimes dishrevelled,
without other apparel than *' that which was requisiteto cover comelily, that which
" modesty wills and ever would have concealed. Then " were of no request the ...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1725
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A dictionary of the Spanish and English languages, orig. ...
Moderno, na, a. Late, recent, modern, new, of the present time, novel, latter.
Modcrnos, tm. pi. Moderns, those who have lived lately : opposed to the ancients.
Modestamente, ad. Modestly, comelily, meekly, maidenly, honestly. Modestia, if.
Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marc' Antonio Baretti, Mateo Seoane Sobral, 1862
Take, for instance, the lady in the Bote of the Ducheue : — ' I saugh hir daunce So
comelily, Carole and singe so swetely, Laughe and plcyc so womanly, And loke
so debonairly ; So goodely speke and so frendly ; That certes I trowe that ...
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Encyclopaedia Londinensis
Withouten pity of her goodly hew, ' That Artegall himselfe her seemlesse plight
did rew. Spenser. SEE'MLILY, adv. Decently ; comelily. Unused. Huloez', and S/
zerwood. - SEE'MLINESS, s. Decency; handsomeness; comeliness; grace;
beauty.
