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"Soothly," saith she, "there were knights in the Court, whose names I knew not: but if they saw me so much as thrice, methinks that were all -- and never spake word unto me."
Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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"Soothly," said Sister Gaillarde: "yet she loveth well to sit on her cushions, and gaze on the stir as a peep-show."
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Jinni who was prisoned in the pillar had told them his tale, from first to last, the folk marvelled at his story and at the frightfulness of his favour, and the Emir Musa said, “There is no God but the God! Soothly was Solomon gifted with a mighty dominion.”
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Then he turned red and said: Soothly I wot that no other hands save thine may do such needlework, or make the draughts for them.
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Soothly a merry life hast thou had as a child, and merry now would be thy life, save for thine hatred of me.
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Soothly there is peril therein; yet meseemeth peril no more than in our abiding another night in the Black Valley.
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When she beheld him she said: Soothly I dare well say that Sir
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When she beheld him she said: Soothly I dare well say that Sir Launcelot begat him, for never two men resembled more in likeness, therefore it is no marvel though he be of great prowess.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Soothly he hath nobly ridden o'er the fair fields, o'er the waste,
Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson
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Soothly we have been told that first industrial and manual training should have taught the Negro to work, then simple schools should have taught him to read and write, and finally, after years, high and normal schools could have completed the system, as intelligence and wealth demanded.
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