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  • Some men do both loathfully, some willingly, but, in most countries it is conceded to be their duty and they are made to do it by law.

    A Weak Link in the Imperial Chain 1909

  • It is the prudent mandate of the old folks: But so loathfully the poor child goes, Bob's heart goes, too.

    The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10 1883

  • Here some apparent remonstrance was met with from both subjects, though amicably overcome by the Professor first manipulating the stolid brow and pallid front of the imperturbable Sweeney -- after which the same mysterious ordeal was loathfully submitted to by Hedrick -- though a noticeably longer time was consumed in securing his final loss of self-control.

    The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10 1883

  • For instance, nothing more delights him than to ` loathfully 'consent to answer a request, at The Mite Society, some evening, for ` an appropriate selection,' and then, with an elaborate introduction of the same, and an exalted tribute to the refined genius of the author, proceed with a most gruesome rendition of ` Alonzo The Brave and The Fair Imogene, 'in a way to coagulate the blood and curl the hair of his fair listeners with abject terror.

    The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10 1883

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