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Definition of Sustainedly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sustainedly
Literary usage of Sustainedly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Singing of the Future by David Ffrangcon-Davies, David Thomas Ffrangcon- Davies (1905)
"They gave a sustainedly vocal ... note would frequently be the high tenor A and
that he would sometimes touch the high C, flowingly and sustainedly. ..."
2. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"But here there was something that balanced his resistance and kept it aloof.
This strong man, whose gaze was sustainedly calm and his finger-nails pink with ..."
3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"This strong man whose gaze was sustainedly calm and his finger-nails pink with
health, who was exercised in all questioning, and accused of excessive mental ..."
4. Some Contemporary Poets (1920) by Harold Monro, Thomas Sturge Moore (1920)
"His movements are more sustainedly happy in less original work, which is an
indication that he had it in him to surpass what now remains his best. ..."
5. The Development of Shakespeare As a Dramatist by George Pierce Baker (1907)
"... though not like him sustainedly, — but the sense he leaves in the best of his
plays of some underlying artistic ideal which brings those plays to a ..."
6. The Development of Shakespeare As a Dramatist by George Pierce Baker (1907)
"... though not like him sustainedly, — but the sense he leaves in the best of his
plays of some underlying artistic ideal which brings those plays to a ..."