How To Use Stilly In A Sentence
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in the stilly night
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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'
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There is no night in the "stilly" sense at a mine.
A Touch of Sun and Other Stories
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The waters work, and Jefferson is exalted stilly in his place.
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The figure lay very stilly on his bed, the sheets rumpled and wet with his sweat.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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In the dusk we walked out onto a little bridge to watch birds, and in the stilly evening, out over the lake an alpen horn began to play.
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Also, I'm told -- and I'm really in no position to know how true this is -- that African-Americans are stilly fairly rare in the elite forces like First Recon, Delta, and the SEALS, and that programs like THE UNIT tend to exagerate their percentage I seem to recall one writer claiming that there are actually more Asian-Americans in Delta and the SEALS than there are African-Americans.
Reviews Too Late: Generation Kill
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He looks down the hall at the remaining plastic sheet hanging stilly in the dry air.
Windows
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They wait there, standing stilly even as the bus slows and tries to stop close to that spot, where a brake squeals mightily.
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In fact, Jane has been stilly love her boss George Hungary, she always with the illusion that one day be able to put on her own Wedding dress.
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Barack Obama is different, not a political practitioner, really, but something else, and not a warm-blooded animal but a cool, chill character, a fish who sits deep in the tank and stares, stilly, at the other fish.
Obama and the Debt Crisis
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Both of the federal party committees are stilly carrying debt from the 2006 election cycle -- $5 million for the DCCC, $6 million for the DSCC.
Jeff Nussbaum: Dedicate a Fifth to the Future: One Democrat's Plea for the Party
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It was forcefully exported with a tetratonic continental health partnerships richmond virginia and all harness and utensils, a denying clue with a stereotactic couch, everyone chair and tension tv and obesity of land space to council out at the double - albeit stilly directed - mail of the churidars and sandal below.
Wii-volution
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For suddenly he became conscious that it was there, behind the trees somewhere lurking, a curious kind of stilly glimmer creeping about the air, along the ground, in and out of the tree-stems.
A Silent Wooing
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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
