How To Use Loathly In A Sentence
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It is then as mysterious an art as it is loathly and horrible; it needs as
The Defense
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They add that, although it is loathly and horrible to look upon, being in the form of a skeleton, I yet give it especial honour and call it in the Greek tongue, basileus, my king.
The Defense
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No! when a husband she loathes is mated with a woman, even life is loathly to her.
Helen
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Skepsey, journeying one late afternoon up a Kentish line, had, in both senses of the word, encountered a long-limbed navvy; an intoxicated, he was compelled by his manly modesty to desire to think; whose loathly talk, forced upon the hearing of a decent old woman opposite him, passed baboonish behaviour; so much so, that Skepsey civilly intervened; subsequently inviting him to leave the carriage and receive a lesson at the station they were nearing.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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Now, since thou hast dared this loathly crime, come, look thy father in the face.
Hippolytus
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Half of it is Orpheus+Selkies+Thomas the Rhymer+Gawain and the loathly lady.
NaNoWriMo 2009
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The one story I do like is the “loathly lady” where one of the knights is pressured into marrying an old hag.
Kingmaking and author Q&A
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Also the yellowessness of these ear thingys will likely change to blackesness later on making them a loathly addition to your goth-emo persona.
Regretsy – Auction #5
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The grim and loathly aspect with which the falconer had regarded Oliver
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Margaret, daughter of the King of Bamburgh was turned into a "laidly worm" (loathly or loathsome serpent) by her wicked stepmother, who was jealous of the lovely maid.
Northumberland Yesterday and To-day
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But the loathly "leperous distilment" taints and spoils, without in any way subserving "perfection," artistic or otherwise.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890