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  • Scotland's darling: "Lord, say us thy dream, for prosperity is given to us" "Blithely," quoth the king, "to bliss may it turn!

    Roman de Brut. English Layamon

  • "Blithely," quoth Merlin, with bold voice, "I will say to thee; but ever it will thee rue.

    Roman de Brut. English Layamon

  • Blithely he writes about Lithuania's past, "We had a few years' respite from the communists while the Nazis were in control."

    There Was No Respite For Lithuanian Jews 2011

  • Blithely stating that the health bill will save $1 trillion over the next decade won't make it happen.

    Economic Quagmire For The U.S. 2010

  • Blithely stating that the health bill will save $1 trillion over the next decade won't make it happen.

    Economic Quagmire For The U.S. 2010

  • Blithely dubbing the crisis "antennagate," he said Apple would provide free cases for all iPhone 4 users to mitigate the effect of the "death grip" that caused dropped or weakened signals.

    Steve Jobs Is Houdini 2010

  • Blithely dubbing the crisis "antennagate," he said Apple would provide free cases for all iPhone 4 users to mitigate the effect of the "death grip" that caused dropped or weakened signals.

    Steve Jobs Is Houdini 2010

  • Blithely ignoring Leni Riefenstahl's prior claim to a similar title - he had named his anthology Triumph Of The Ball.

    Brad Schreiber: Having a Secret Policeman's Ball 2009

  • Blithely ignoring the reviewer's critique, O'Horgan proceeded to significantly ramp up the vulgarity and the sex, and in a controversial new twist to Act I, introduced a mass display of bare breasts alongside an assortment of other appendages otherwise safely packed away.

    Good 'Hair' Day 2009

  • Blithely we thought that the world—even the Communist part of it—would be responsive to our pleas and our dollars.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

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