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stilly

adverb as in silently

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Example Sentences

He would have said that she had scarcely thought of the child, so stilly had she gone about her work, day in and day out.

It was as if nothing wrong could happen in a world where things balanced so stilly.

The candle flames, rising up stilly on the night air, were reflected from the golden lioncels which studded the deep blue canopy of the bed.

That has been a theme for me over the past year and a half, trying to power through under my own steam and realizing that that is stilly.

From Time

May halcyon-birds that hover o'er the brine     Diffuse abroad their own tranquillity, Till ocean stretches stilly as the wine     In this deep cup which now we drain to thee.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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