verily
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It is a tragicomedy, a hybrid of past and present, a pastiche and an original yarn, a verily fun and achingly melancholy novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2021
An article in The Muskogee Comet, a Black newspaper, from June 23, 1904, proclaimed that the Tulsa area “may verily be called the Eden of the West for the colored people.”
From New York Times ● May 25, 2021
We believe verily to see the goodness of the Lord.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 16, 2021
“But if you love me, as I trust verily that you do,” she wrote, “you will not leave me therefore.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2020
“Verily, verily I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.”
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
Vocabulary lists containing verily
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 4
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