crossly

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Crossly he added: "Then the papers can print as many lies about them as they want to."

From Time Magazine Archive

They have civilly asked her, and Crossly forced her to ask civilly to go away, which she has done, with a pension of twelve hundred a-year.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter

If there is a whole family in the fever in a cottage at Crossly End, as Mrs Howell says there is, how very dangerous it must be to attend them!”

From Deerbrook by Martineau, Harriet

“What puzzles me is,” continued North, “that if Sir Crossly Cowel ’as no right to ’is millions, my old grandmother ’ad no right to ’er fi’ pun note!”

From Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Crossly he snatched from the other two their miner's certificates, made the entries in his book, and gave them their receipts.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)