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Definition of Toothsomely
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toothsomely
Literary usage of Toothsomely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1871)
"History has been toothsomely sugar-coated with fiction for any number of years,
and since Charles Dickens wrote "Oliver Twist" we have had arguments for all ..."
2. New Orleans; the Place and the People by Grace Elizabeth King (1895)
"... with grease and pieces of .meat or fish (the original of the Creole Jambalaya,
in which rice has since been most toothsomely substituted for corn). ..."
3. The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed (1905)
"... citing some flippant words of Parton in which a slander of contemporary politics
is toothsomely repeated as his voucher, he flatly charges the ..."
4. Sketches in Crude-oil: Some Accidents and Incidents of the Petroleum by John James McLaurin (1902)
"Charles H. Morse, the first city-editor, had the snap to corral news at sight
and present it toothsomely. Who that knew him in his beardless youth imagined ..."
5. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1854)
"With a breast of boiled mutton young turnips eat very toothsomely; still, young
turnips, joined to the boiled leg of mutton, and accompanied with parsley ..."
6. The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed (1906)
"... citing some flippant words of Parton in which a slander of contemporary politics
is toothsomely repeated as his voucher, he flatly charges the ..."
7. New England Bygones by E. H. Arr, Ellen Chapman Hobbs [Rollins (1883)
"Here night-dews lingered, and apples mellowed toothsomely under the matted grass.
Here was the couch of the tired laborer and the play-ground of children, ..."
8. A Diary of Two Parliaments by Henry William Lucy (1885)
"He sat there, with a hand half hid in either trouser-pocket, and toothsomely
dallied with a tooth-pick. Nothing appeared more remote from probability than ..."
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