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All Mankind seemed perfectible & we had Painters & Poets & we were indeed Lords of Matter, all number’d cleanly & meetly.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

And with this ancient elephant there were meetly associated in Britain, as on the northern continents generally all around the globe, many other mammals of corresponding magnitude.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh

But when Melrose he reached, 'twas silence all; He meetly stabled his steed in stall, And sought the convent's lonely wall.

From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various

Her brows crown'd meetly, and, through thee, Her God in sight of all confess'd, She gives in her divinity Meaning and law to garb and vest.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

Eager, the king withdrew where none was near, p. 32And gave close audience to Minuccio, Who meetly told that love-tale meet to know.

From How Lisa Loved the King by Eliot, George