Definitions
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- adverb obsolete Quickly. See
swithe .
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- adverb obsolete
quickly ;swithe
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Examples
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And he zede47 and opened the tombe; and there fleyghe out an eddere righte hidous to see; the whiche als swythe fleighe aboute the cytee and the contree; and sone after the cytee sank downe.
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And he zede493 and opened the tombe; and there fleyghe out an eddere righte hidous to see; the whiche als swythe fleighe aboute the cytee and the contree; and sone after the cytee sank downe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Be stylle: swythe lette the chyrches rynge mie knelle.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Lette alle the Dacyannes swythe untoe oure banner joyne.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Douglas in his, 490. merry in, where beards wag all, 21. merry swythe it is in, 21. or bower, never heard in, 243.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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[Footnote: Went.] and opened the tombe; and there fleyghe out an eddere righte hidous to see; the whiche als swythe fleighe aboute the cytee and the contree; and sone after the cytee sank downe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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That chal gammer swythe and tyte, and sone be here agayne.
Gammer Gurton's Needle Anonymous 1575
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Hence swythe to Doctor Rat, hye the that thou were gone,
Gammer Gurton's Needle Anonymous 1575
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"Fro riche Romulus to Rome, riches him swythe / with great baubbance that bur3 he bigges vpon fyrst."
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