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Definition of Spongily
1. in a spongy manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spongily
Literary usage of Spongily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"... encumbered the earth with a rank vegetation generative of pestilent -miasmas,
and altogether forming a tract too spongily saturated to be bent to human ..."
2. Memoirs of a Midget by Walter De la Mare (1922)
"And spongily, ponderously, there, beyond the bars, debouched into view a
huge-shouldered, mole-coloured elephant, its trunk sagging towards the dust, ..."
3. Clinical Lectures on Subjects Connected with Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetrics by Richard von Volkmann, Adolf Kussmaul, New Sydenham Society (1876)
"... and should be applied both to the spongily degenerated lips of the cervix,
and to the mucous membrane of the canal itself. The method of treatment here, ..."
4. The Indian Forester (1900)
"... small staminodes at base of sheath; ovary stipitate ; pod large, oblong,
thickly woody, 2-valved, septate and spongily pulpy within; seeds with a large, ..."
5. Memoirs of a Midget by Walter De la Mare (1922)
"And spongily, ponderously, there, beyond the bars, debouched into view a
huge-shouldered, mole-coloured elephant, its trunk sagging towards the dust, ..."
6. The Present Condition of Economic Science and the Demand for a Radical by Edward Clark Lunt (1888)
"gigantic, spongily absorbent transportation companies, in vital connection with
the industrial life of the community, have no prototype in the economic ..."
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