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Examples
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Cheerly, boys; be brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.
Romeo and Juliet 2004
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Cheerly goes the dark road, cheerly goes the night,
The Toy Band 1917
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Cheerly, boys; be brisk a while, and the longer liver take all.
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Cheerly goes the dark road, cheerly goes the night,
A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 George Herbert Clarke 1913
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"Cheerly, Mr. Shears!" roared the detective-sergeant.
The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective Maurice Leblanc 1902
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Orlando, seeing him in this weak state, took his old servant up in his arms, and carried him under the shelter of some pleasant trees; and he said to him, Cheerly, old Adam, rest your weary limbs here awhile, and do not talk of dying!
As You Like It 1878
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"Cheerly, men!" and in a few minutes every sail was set, for the wind was light.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Royal, Crow Street, in 1811, as "The Widow Cheerly."
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Heave hearty, ho! '' and the chorus of ` ` Cheerly, men! '' cats the anchor.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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When we came to mast-head the topsail yards, with all hands at the halyards, we struck up ` ` Cheerly, men, '' with a chorus which might have been heard half-way to Staten Land.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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