How To Use Lyly In A Sentence
- He would allow John slyly to copy his answers to impossibly difficult algebra questions.
- Although the term ‘abuse’ in the title emphasizes moral censure, the poem does not read like a puritan palinode but seems to compete against Lyly's Euphues, which had appeared a few months earlier.
- She laughed, a bit slyly, bending her head to one side.
- She is whispering slyly to her neighbor.
- And practically everyone—male and female—wore some small bauble that weighed in at several carats, whether it was a diamond choker or a ruby cufflink slyly winking from the end of a tuxedo sleeve. Venom
- And he has slyly told us how, as he stepped aboard that “inland palace,” he bethought him of having written a thesis, three years before, proving that De Witt Clinton's chimera of joining the Hudson and Lake Erie was an idea both fictile and fibrous. Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great
- Upset over the turn of events, they slyly have her removed from their home, leaving both the maid and the young daughter distraught.
- Jonathan Richman, among others, spent his prime writing this kind of slyly humorous yet evocative music.
- The mad cuckoo behind the little door could not resist casting a shadow upon the virility of his enemy, just as the cuckoo astonishingly characterized those who demonstrated against the war in New York, October 1965, as "epicene" and "mincing" slobs, thus slyly assigning to sodom’s banner such unlikely recruits as I.F. Stone, Ossie Davis, and Father Philip Berrigan. R_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
- He spake the old phrase slyly as, glancing round his train, The Complete Works of Whittier