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adverb

Shortly adv.

In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. "I shall grow jealous of you shortly." "The armies came shortly in view of each other."

In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.

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"Shortly" Quotes from Famous Books

... His letters were all of his inner life. He said much regarding his spiritual condition, of his grievous lapses of faith, of his days on the Delectable Mountains and of his descents into the Slough of Despond, but very little of the hills and valleys of his adopted country. Once, shortly after his arrival, he had stated that he was living in a shanty where the bush came right up to the door. Margaret had had some misgivings, but Cousin Griselda had explained that a shanty was in all probability a dear little cottage, and the bush might be an American rose bush, or more likely ...

— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith

... shortly. "Why, I should think I know more about the inside o' gaols than anybody in England; I've pretty near killed three policemen, besides breaking a gent's leg and throwing a footman out of window, and then Brother Clark goes and says I've ...

— Captains All and Others • W.W. Jacobs

... Shah Shooja to the throne of Cabool. He says, "In May, 1838, a complimentary deputation was sent by Runjet Sing to the Governor-General at Simla, consisting of some of the most distinguished Sikh chiefs, who were received with all the honours prescribed by oriental etiquette. Shortly afterwards, Lord Auckland resolved to send a mission to the court of Lahore, not merely to reciprocate the compliments of the Maharajah, but to treat upon all the important interests which were involved in the existing state of political affairs ...

— Campaign of the Indus • T.W.E. Holdsworth

... every man conversant with the earlier history of this country that, shortly subsequent to the cession of the Canadas to England by France, Ponteac, the great head of the Indian race of that period, had formed a federation of the various tribes, threatening extermination to the British posts established along the Western frontier. These were nine ...

— Wacousta: A Tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy (Complete) • John Richardson

... those were fine horses and though I say it, no better team in the south country. You'll remember the 'off wheeler' broke his leg shortly after and had ...

— The Broad Highway • Jeffery Farnol

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