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Definition of Dewily
1. in a dewy manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dewily
Literary usage of Dewily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blind Alley: Being the Picture of a Very Gallant Gentleman; the Adventures by Walter Lionel George (1919)
"... daughter of my own decay, (Drearily, drearily) Rosy is my quarry, rosy is her
lip, (Rosily, rosily) Dewy is her fragrance, dew from her I sip, (dewily, ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1860)
"... that 1,lows ima(l previously been given, if they evidently left triom of a
dewily revenge which seeks mmm' opportunity of indulging itself by provoking ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1857)
"By the clear rose-light o'er the sea, The blue air drooping dewily Above the
kindling hill— Spring that in Paradise had birth Must keep to beautify the ..."
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