Sentence example with the word 'stilly'

stilly

Definition adj. (poetic) still or calm

Last update: October 23, 2015


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It was far down the afternoon; and when all the spearings of the crimson fight were done: and floating in the lovely sunset sea and sky, sun and whale both stilly died together; then, such a sweetness and such plaintiveness, such inwreathing orisons curled up in that rosy air, that it almost seemed as if far over from the deep green convent valleys of the Manilla isles, the Spanish land-breeze, wantonly turned sailor, had gone to sea, freighted with these vesper hymns.   [Please select]

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Thus in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Sad memory brings the light Of other days around me.   [Please select]

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Thus, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.   [Please select]

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The river, too, was colored, and every tree was like a torch burning stilly in the quiet of the evening.   [Please select]

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She took it stilly, and turned him a marble, storm-purged face, a pair of eyes which seemed all black.   [Please select]

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Under the stilly boughs and the black gauze of dusk the street was meshed in silence.   [Please select]

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Oft on a stilly night one hears the blinds rattle never so slightly.   [Please select]

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