What is "soundly"

Usage examples of "soundly".

No doubt the affronted Marquis vo Derrivalle would order the erring Borlo Bunison soundly whipped.

And again he bussed the queen soundly, amid approbatory regard from all who were there -- except possibly for the Master of the Pavilions, a joyless fellow like his kind most all the world over.

His hold loosened marginally, but when she hitched her hips to the side and landed a fist soundly against his testicles, his strength apparently abandoned him.

The whole poetry-loathing world had the face of Dr Wapenshaw but, he felt, having soundly and legitimately bemerded that face in imagination and micturated on it also, the world was content merely to loathe, while Dr Wapenshaw had had to go further, deliberately liquidating the poet.

She gave Bentley a smirk as she stepped past him, handed the missive to Sebastian, then, with head held high, glided out of the entry hall, into a side room and soundly shut the huge oak door behind her.

The procureur felt more at ease, although he had learned nothing really satisfactory, and, for the first time since the dinner-party at Auteuil, he slept soundly.

The cruder early notions of resettling the land by fostering peasant proprietorship, with habitable houses and security of tenure, were already under a cloud, since it was more than suspected that they would interfere unduly with the game laws and other soundly vested interests.

It was a small one, with stallage for only half a dozen animals, but soundly built.

Without looking to the right or left to notice the scene of rural wealth on which he had so often gloated, he went straight to the stable, and with several hearty cuffs and kicks roused his steed most uncourteously from the comfortable quarters in which he was soundly sleeping, dreaming of mountains of corn and oats and whole valleys of timothy and clover.

Although Winn slept too soundly to be disturbed by either wind or rain, the storm awoke Major Caspar, who listened for some time to this announcement that the hour for setting forth on his long-projected journey was at hand.

For the first time since the night Adonis had left, she slept soundly.

The custom prevailed among tribes so widely asunder as Peruvians, Tupis, Creeks, Iroquois, Algonkins, and Greenland Eskimos to thrash the curs most soundly during an eclipse.

After this I slept again, soundly this time, till morning, when I awoke much refreshed, and got up.

And again he bussed the queen soundly, amid approbatory regard from all who were there -- except possibly for the Master of the Pavilions, a joyless fellow like his kind most all the world over.

The scent of Emeraude filled them, and the housekeeper herself slept soundly in the bedroom.