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Definition of Spikily
1. spiky [adv] - See also: spiky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spikily
Literary usage of Spikily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The War in Eastern Europe by John Reed (1916)
"The mulberry-trees were neglected, the tobacco-plants were last year's, rotting
yellow; corn-stalks stood spikily in weedy fields unturned for twelve months ..."
2. The Log of an Island Wanderer: Notes of Travel in the Eastern Pacific by Edwin Pallander (1901)
"... a smell of guava-scrub, and a deep-green line of water where the coral grows
hard enough and spikily enough to do for the keels of a million ironclads. ..."
3. Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos (1921)
"Reddish-brown hair escaped spikily from under a mud-spattered beret. "Where did
you say you were going?" "Conflans-Ste.-Honorine. Silly all these saints, ..."
4. The Last Sentence by Maxwell Gray, Albert Hencke (1893)
"... rebellious growth, which would neither curl nor lie down, but stood out spikily
in every direction, giving her a wild and disordered air that emphasized ..."
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