What is "holily"

Usage examples of "holily".

And think -- because they holily refrain from adulterating each other, they get praise for it!

It is to be done as an artist paints a picture, or writes a poem, with love, holily, a true sacrament of beauty.

Yet, in that calm secluded spot, and under the cold, pure light which fell so holily, what a hell was weltering and glaring!

Lieutenant Isaac Marmaduke Elton, she accepts the cant of the feathers and the iron meeting holily when the holy words have been burbled.

See how gently and touchingly the day departs, and how holily the night comes!

And where is the man that walketh so holily in this covenant as becomes him, and as it requires?

It makes a special union of all those who shall take it holily and sincerely throughout the three kingdoms with the one-most God.

FIRST VOICE Now, in her iceberg-white, holily laundered crinoline nightgown, under virtuous polar sheets, in her spruced and scoured dust-defying bedroom in trig and trim Bay View, a house for paying guests, at the top of the town, Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard widow, twice, of Mr Ogmore, linoleum, retired, and Mr Pritchard, failed bookmaker, who maddened by besoming, swabbing and scrubbing, the voice of the vacuum-cleaner and the fume of polish, ironically swallowed disinfectant, fidgets in her rinsed sleep, wakes in a dream, and nudges in the ribs dead Mr Ogmore, dead Mr Pritchard, ghostly on either side.

In her life-long low light, holily Bessie milks the fond lake-eyed cows as dusk showers slowly down over byre, sea and town.