Meaning of shapelily | Babel Free

Definitions

In a shapely manner.

Examples

“[…]in 1593, Sir Hugh Platt, of Lincolne’s Inne, Gentleman, produced his “Dyvers Soyles for manuring Pasture and Arable Land;” in 1594, his “Jewel-house of Art and Nature, containing divers rare and profitable Instructions, together with sundry new Experiments in the Art of Husbandry, distillation, and moulding;” and “Divers Chimicall conclusions;” a book which by Martin is thought to have been really the work of several hands, and to have been edited merely by Platt, who in his preface extols his “Conceyted book of Gardening, wherein he has set downe sundrie observations, which neither M. Tusser, though he have written shapelily, nor Master Hill though he have written painfully, nor Master Barnabe Googe though he have written soundlye, applying himself in his whole discourse both to our Soyle and Clymate, hath as yet discovered to the world.””

“Ulysses meets in the mansion of Hades, not Hercules, who has been promoted to Olympus, and to “Hebe shapelily ankled,” but a phantom exactly resembling him.”

“Yet its meaning was such as might have accounted for a little irregularity and quite justified whatever emotional emphasis the appropriately placed ob! ah! and helas! always so neatly written, and with the interjectional point so shapelily marked, might be taken to convey.”

“The stump-rooted carrots carrots must be grown, and an intermediate (half-long) parsnip; but a long beetroot will grow shapelily, the roots of this vegetable growing upwards as well as downwards.”

“The beet of medium length (an intermediate variety) will grow shapelily in shallowly-dug or stony ground.”

“It would, therefore, never do to encourage these so shapelily and chromatically meritorious dears to follow out the dictates of womanly confidence and generosity to the point where they could bleat about it.”

“She was dressed, for he had never made any attempt to Westernize her, in a short blue silk jacket that fell shapelily over a gold and scarlet sinn;”

“Do not plant the bulbs of the onion family so that they are covered with more than an inch of soil, or the bulbs will not grow shapelily.”

“The Tennessee football Vols won’t make any public appearances on New Year’s Day, but the drum majorettes who supported them so gallantly and shapelily will.”

“[…]and slowly, shapelily, reduce it little by little till it stood at the beautiful answer:[…]”

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