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Definition of Dustily
1. in a dusty manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dustily
Literary usage of Dustily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"A Colloge Sweep went dustily round, Plying his yellow broom. Songs of Yak, 1853, p.
12. In the Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. III. p. ..."
2. The Ingoldsby Country: Literary Landmarks of the "Ingoldsby Legends". by Charles George Harper (1906)
"Brookland is distant one mile from the main road, on a by-way that, if you follow
it long enough, brings you dustily into Rye ; dustily, because the traffic ..."
3. The Ingoldsby Country: Literary Landmarks of the "Ingoldsby Legends" by Charles George Harper (1904)
"Brookland is distant one mile from the main road, on a by-way that, if you follow
it long enough, brings you dustily into Rye ; dustily, because the traffic ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"... the heat strengthens, the rain makes grow: so is a virgin whilst untouched,
whilst dear to her relatives, but when once she forfeits her dustily," lu. ..."
5. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1867)
"There is a village, once the county town, Through which the weekly mail rolled
dustily down, Where the courts sat, it may be, twice a year, ..."
6. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1921)
"... exhausting and prohibitive hours at teaching or editing to keep themselves
dustily alive. Our poets, even our successful poets, paid less for years of ..."
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