Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuneably
Literary usage of Tuneably
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1826)
"They can sing any thing most tuneably, sir, but psalms. What they may do hereafter,
under a triple-tree, is much expected; but they live very civilly and ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1907)
"... tuneably some of the chorus may have sung them. (ADC himself cannot have
been "cacophonous.") And in the words of these songs there was very little ..."
3. A Select Collection of Old Plays by Robert Dodsley (1780)
"... libellous fongs at London, were fain to fly into our covey, and here they fing
all our poet's ditties. They can fing any thing moft tuneably, fir, ..."
4. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1840)
"In " Ion," every line was a lute-song, every act of the drama a divine hymn ;
the poetical notation, so to speak, was most tuneably correct, ..."
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