on this wise

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And it was on this wise: The Underwood Bill had the floor as an amendment by substitution for the Norris Bill.

From Time Magazine Archive

For He hath said somewhere of the seventh day on this wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all His works; and in this place again, They shall not enter into My rest.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Edwards, Thomas Charles

There the sport began, and was conducted on this wise.

From Above the Snow Line by Dent, Clinton Thomas

In such a terrella the demonstration of the variation and the discovery of the stronger parts is on this wise.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

Now, the matter of dispute was on this wise: On 'Squire Jones's land there was a mill, which mill Uncle Jaw averred was "always a-flooding his medder land."

From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher