costlily

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1. In a costly manner.

   […] during an early hour on a fine summer’s morn, a stranger costlily appareled, and accompanied by two mounted domestics, galloped violently, into a frontier town.

   1836, [Frederic Mansel Reynolds], The Parricide. A Domestic Romance., volume II, London: Thomas Hookham, […], page 311

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   The assembly was wonderfully great; young Knights costlily armed and adorned, and Infantas who were King’s daughters, and Damsels of high degree, for whom their lovers were about to make pastime and pleasure.

   1803, Vasco Lobeira; [Robert Southey, transl.], chapter 32, in Amadis of Gaul, volume I, London: […] N[athaniel] Biggs, […], for T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], page 255

   Scarcely had these movements been accomplished, ere a costlily arrayed knight appeared before them, and by the mouth of the squire who accompanied him, demanded admission.

   1827, Stories of Chivalry and Romance, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, page 43

   The newly arrived leader—Gonzelli—formed outwardly a complete contrast to the armed men about his brother, as well as to his brother also.—The latter was armed, and costlily.

   1832, [Thomas Arnold], Dramatic Stories, volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 158

   Now, in this, as in every thing else, there is a medium, and I suspect that in breeding so costlily and carefully, we are overstepping the bounds of moderation, and unfitting our stock to bear the vicissitudes of climate and a medium degree of exposure, encouraging their growth by over-nursing, with a view to create a fine coat and delicacy of handling.

   1841 October 15, Joseph Stillé, “Philadelphia Agricultural Exhibition”, in The Farmers’ Cabinet, and American Herd-Book, Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and Rural and Domestic Affairs, volume VI, number 3 (whole 81), Philadelphia, Pa.: […] Kimber & Sharpless, […], published 1842, page 100, column 1

   They are costlily dressed in gold and rich stuffs, their girdles richly set with jewels, on their heads are suns and other ornaments of gold wire, and on their limbs costly trappings and fringes of the kind called Dídereí, and Dehdehí; another kind used to be worn by Persian Shátirs.

   1846, Evliya Efendi, translated by Joseph von Hammer, Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, volume I, part II, London: […] the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; […] William H. Allen & Co. […], page 127