ADJECTIVE
  1. (poetic) still or calm
    in the stilly night
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How To Use stilly In A Sentence

  • in the stilly night
  • GB's so stilly thinking no one would notice his hand in scrapping the 10p tax rate for the poorest part of our community. Brown's 'got it now'
  • There is no night in the "stilly" sense at a mine. A Touch of Sun and Other Stories
  • The waters work, and Jefferson is exalted stilly in his place.
  • The figure lay very stilly on his bed, the sheets rumpled and wet with his sweat.
  • Crickets sang of nights in the stilly cabins, and in the sunshine mosquitoes crept from out hollow logs and snug crevices among the rocks, -- big, noisy, harmless fellows, that had procreated the year gone, lain frozen through the winter, and were now rejuvenated to buzz through swift senility to second death. CHAPTER 23
  • Forby derives [cook-eels] from coquille, in allusion to their being fashioned like an escallop, in which sense he is borne out by Cotgrave, who has "Pain coquillé, a fashion of an hard-crusted loafe, somewhat like our stillyard bunne. Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850
  • The interest becomes intense; the wrongful heir draws his sword, and rushes on the rightful heir; a blue smoke is seen, a gong is heard, and a tall white figure (who has been all this time, behind the arm – chair, covered over with a table – cloth), slowly rises to the tune of ‘Oft in the stilly night.’ Sketches by Boz
  • Nowhere does the night seem more "stilly," or the sense of seclusion more profound, than in the middle of the broad bay on a midsummer night before or after the theatre-goers have crossed. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
  • It was a stilly pitch-dark morning; neither moon nor star nor light from house or electricity pole was to be seen.
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