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Definition of Dartingly
1. adv. Like a dart; rapidly.
Definition of Dartingly
1. Adverb. In a darting manner; rapidly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dartingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dartingly
Literary usage of Dartingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"dartingly she bent down and kissed the Senior Surgeon's astonished wrist. "Oh,
then I think you 're perfectly grand !" she sobbed. ..."
2. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1870)
"Here are two illustrations of it : " Torrent- like rapid, dartingly eager, mortal
his strides; dauntless, dealing death around ; invincible, fierce, ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1853)
"... and although I miss your damask cheeks, О roses, and you, sweet-breathed
honeysuckles, from whose lips the humming-bird dartingly drinks, as you burst ..."
4. An Introductory Discourse, Delivered Before the Literary and Philosophical by DeWitt Clinton (1815)
"... is highly discoloured, and to dartingly quick is the ascent of the Gsh, as
rather to resemble the transient gleam of a pacing shadow over the water, ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1861)
"... of the gospel are arrows, striking secretly and dartingly into men's hearts,
and wounding them mortally ..."
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