stilly
Americanadverb
adjective
adverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of stilly
before 1000; Middle English (adv.); Old English stillīce. See still 1, -ly
Example Sentences
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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 • Aug. 18, 2013
But late in the book he quotes a description of the Great Smokies written in 1926, and sure enough it is just awful: "From their highest elevation bannered a stilly chrome wash of startled light."
From Time Magazine Archive
It begins with the stilly calm of a Christmas carol, but as the stanzas become more aggressive, the conscripts improvise a louder and louder beat of spoon on glass, stick on stick, fist on palm.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oft in the stilly nights of the 1970s, the earth's peace will be torn by a thunderous crash as a sleek, supersonic airliner passes high overhead.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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