burlesquely

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Cp. also 128 and the spirited epic fragment burlesquely used in

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
President Winston burlesquely replied, putting the answer into the mouth of a Bull Frog, but I have been unable to procure a copy.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912
Several of the names of the dishes in Russell are used burlesquely in the Feest of the Turnament of Tottenham, _E.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
When the event was an unlucky one, the song was a burlesquely pathetic complaint, and always with a vein of raillery running through it.

Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861
Assuredly we seem to sink most abruptly, not to say burlesquely, and almost as in a medley, from this couplet to --

Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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