verily
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I’m sure the cast, which includes Eggers regulars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe and Ralph Ineson, had fun, verily.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2026
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
“Godfather II” managed to be both a prequel and a sequel, an early force in inviting audiences not just to like something and be grateful, but to say — yea, verily demand: More please.
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2019
I wanted to hear a big voice on the phone say “Yea, verily, this is me, God. It’s all good, my man, and will be ultracool in the end. Don’t worry about it.”
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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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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