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Soundly   /sˈaʊndli/   Listen
Soundly

adverb
1.
Deeply or completely.  "The baby is sleeping soundly"
2.
Completely and absolutely ('good' is sometimes used informally for 'thoroughly').  Synonyms: good, thoroughly.  "We beat him good"





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"Soundly" Quotes from Famous Books



... I am a sleep-walker, and the last two nights I have been without my sleeping mixture. There is nothing to be alarmed about, really. I am sorry I made such an ass of myself. I will go over the down to Shoreham, and get some stuff to make me sleep soundly. I ought to have ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells
... which followed we spent upon the summit of the pyramid, and for my part I was so weary that after I had eaten I never slept more soundly. Next morning the struggle began anew; and this time with better success to the Spaniards. Inch by inch under cover of the heavy fire from their arquebusses and pieces, they forced us upward and backward. All day long the fight continued upon the ...
— Montezuma's Daughter • H. Rider Haggard
... three who had been brought into contact thus strangely, Madeline slept most soundly ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch
... on this question, my gentle Britisher. If you should happen to hit Burchmore, I have no doubt he would wallop you soundly ...
— Up The Baltic - Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark • Oliver Optic
... under my care, in Glasgow Infirmary, a boy who was admitted with compound fracture of the leg as late as eight and one-half hours after the accident, in whom, nevertheless, all local and constitutional disturbance was avoided by means of carbolic acid, and the bones were soundly united ...
— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various


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