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Examples
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Without further preamble, she began pummelling him briskly about the middle body, with fightly clenched, but evidently expert, fists.
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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He had loft an eye, in an engagement, but was not on that account the more un - fightly for a foldier*s fervice.
Life; or, The adventures of William Ramble, by the author of Modern times 1793
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The Centurion's boat was immediately difpatched, and preparations were made for receiving him; in particular a hun - dred of the moft fightly of the crew were uniformly drefled in the regimentals of the marines, and were drawn up under arms on the main-deck, againd his arrival.
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They have mych, but bad, metaphyfics; much, but bad, geometry} much, but falfc proportionate arith - metic; but if it were all as exaft as metaphyfics, geometry, and arithmetic ought to be, arid if their fchemes yrcrc perfeftly confident in all their parts, it would make only a more fair and fightly vifion.
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