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Sweetly   /swˈitli/   Listen
Sweetly

adverb
1.
In an affectionate or loving manner ('sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of 'sweetly').  Synonym: sweet.  "How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank" , "Talking sweet to each other"






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"Sweetly" Quotes from Famous Books



... sweetly bold, To keep him from her garden shrine, With hair that fell, a shower of gold, Around her figure's snowy ...
— Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse • Richard Doddridge Blackmore

... fresh, pure breeze and revealed the lake, whose waters murmured sweetly around the base of the edifice, as if rendering homage. On the right, at a distance, appeared Talim Island, a deep blue in the midst of the lake, while almost in front lay the green and deserted islet of Kalamba, in the shape of a half-moon. To ...
— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal

... flutters the golden fringe: Noble his limbs, his face clear and smiling. His companion goes after, following, The men of France their warrant find in him. Proudly he looks towards the Sarrazins, And to the Franks sweetly, himself humbling; And courteously has said to them this thing: "My lords barons, go now your pace holding! Pagans are come great martyrdom seeking; Noble and fair reward this day shall bring, Was never won by any Frankish King." Upon these words the hosts ...
— The Song of Roland • Anonymous

... Barr, of Worcester has! After church, in the evening, they sat round and sung hymns, so sweetly that they overpowered me. It was with great difficulty that I abstained from weeping aloud! and the infant, in Mrs. B.'s. arms, leant forward, and stretched his little arms, and stared, and smiled! It seemed a picture of heaven, where the different ...
— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle

... under what strange circumstances it was hemmed and embroidered," gently proffered the young girl raising her big blue eyes and smiling sweetly. ...
— With Those Who Wait • Frances Wilson Huard


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