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Preciously

adverb
1.
Extremely.  Synonym: precious.






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"Preciously" Quotes from Famous Books



... till the doctor was rampant. He then made him cease, but ordered me to mount on Harry's back. I knew I should catch it sharp, as the doctor was just excited enough to wish to be more so. And preciously he gave it me—interpolating questions as to how I had accomplished my wicked ends. I told him it was his own advice to me to let her see my prick, which I did, ...
— The Romance of Lust - A classic Victorian erotic novel • Anonymous

... sister! They were so preciously afraid I should ruin myself. Philip, I could not make head against them. They were too much for me, and too many for me; they were all round me; they were ahead of me; I had no chance at all. So I gave up in despair. Women are the overpowering ...
— Nobody • Susan Warner

... 1307 carefully abstracted all the manuscripts composing the secret archives of the Order from the search made by authority, and these authentic manuscripts having been preciously preserved since that period, we have to-day the certainty that the Knights endured a great number of religious and moral trials before reaching the different degrees of initiation: thus, for example, the recipient might receive the injunction under pain of death to ...
— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster



Words linked to "Preciously" :   intensive, intensifier



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