sweetfully

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1. rareIn a sweetful manner.

   I showed mama your commission, and she agreed with me that it was too sweetfully sweet of you altogether.

   1882, “Written Expressly for Puck’s Annual by Oscar W-lde”, in Puck’s Annual for 1882, New York, N.Y.: […] Keppler & Schwarzmann

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   I cannot do this better than in the words of an excellent writer. He forms a fine contraſt by beginning with a deſcription of the Northern parts of Scotland. ‘[…] And all theſe ſongs are ſweetfully and powerfully expreſſive of love and tenderneſs, and other emotions ſuited to the tranquillity of paſtoral life.’

   1783, [John Pinkerton], “A Dissertation on the Comic Ballad”, in Select Scotish Ballads, volume II (Containing Ballads of the Comic Kind), London: […] J. Nichols, pages xxiv and xxvi–xxvii

   And why is this lovely carnation / So sweetfully changing its flush, / More sweet than the quick transformation / In thee, at thine innocent blush?

   1834, E. G. V., “On Receiving a Nosegay”, in The Dew-drop, a Collection of Poems, London: […] Baylis and Leighton, […], page 145

   And the ruff o’ yar mouth liken onto the best wine for my beloved, as go down sweetfully, makin’ the lips o’ them as air asleep to spake.

   [1860], Edward Gillett, The Song of Solomon in the Norfolk Dialect. From the Authorised English Version., London: Strangeways & Walden, […], VII:9, page 17

   The monument at the grave in Greenwood now simply inscribed “Florence,” is , by his request, to have engraven on its face the following inscription, which he wrote himself about two months before he died: IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF MY MOTHER, […] She passed away peacefully, sweetfully, hopefully, February 22, 1874. in the seventy-second year of her age.

   1892, “Wm. J. Florence’s Grave”, in The Postal Record: A Journal for Postal Employees, volume 5, number 3, New York, N.Y., page 22

   “The third verse will be the last,” she said aloud, sweetfully and sorrowfully, then winked broadly at Janet.

   1920, High School Life, page 53