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Definition of Sappily
1. sappy [adv] - See also: sappy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sappily
Literary usage of Sappily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"Old cheese-columns happily, Pork that pillared sappily, Raised their heads aloof;
While curd-rafters mellowly Crossing cream-beams yellowly, Held aloft the ..."
2. Bards of the Gael and Gall: Examples of the Poetic Literature of Erinn, Done by George Sigerson (1907)
"Old cheese-columns happily, Pork that pillared sappily, Raised their heads aloof;
The Irish original was at least partly rimed into Lowland Scotch, ..."
3. The Ballads of Scotland by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1858)
"The first it smelt sae sappily, To touch the lave he did not greine; " The devil
cut aff their hands," quoth he, " That fill'd ye a' sae fu' yestreen ! ..."
4. The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics by Charles Welsh (1907)
"Old cheese-columns happily, Pork that pillared sappily, Raised their heads aloof;
While curd-rafters mellowly Crossing cream-beams yellowly, Held aloft the ..."
5. Merry's Museum and Parley's Magazine (1857)
"... it will tell when you are old ; and if you are old, rest assured it will send
you gently and sappily down the stream of time to eternity. ..."
6. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1861)
"Hence is supposed the decay of the Glastonbury thorn, whose arising time being
between Michaelmas and Christmas, being sappily prepared by the beginning of ..."
7. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"Old cheese-columns happily, Pork that pillared sappily, Raised their heads aloof;
While curd-rafters mellowly Crossing cream-beams yellowly, Held aloft the ..."
8. Bards of the Gael and Gall: Examples of the Poetic Literature of Erinn, Done by George Sigerson (1907)
"Old cheese-columns happily, Pork that pillared sappily, Raised their heads aloof;
The Irish original was at least partly rimed into Lowland Scotch, ..."
9. The Ballads of Scotland by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1858)
"The first it smelt sae sappily, To touch the lave he did not greine; " The devil
cut aff their hands," quoth he, " That fill'd ye a' sae fu' yestreen ! ..."
10. The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics by Charles Welsh (1907)
"Old cheese-columns happily, Pork that pillared sappily, Raised their heads aloof;
While curd-rafters mellowly Crossing cream-beams yellowly, Held aloft the ..."
11. Merry's Museum and Parley's Magazine (1857)
"... it will tell when you are old ; and if you are old, rest assured it will send
you gently and sappily down the stream of time to eternity. ..."
12. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1861)
"Hence is supposed the decay of the Glastonbury thorn, whose arising time being
between Michaelmas and Christmas, being sappily prepared by the beginning of ..."
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