Welly
[weli]
Examples
- Pretty well done--well, yes, I suppose it was: Welly Bry's got his back up and don't mean to let go till he's got the hang of the thing. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Fire's welly out,' said he, giving it a vigorous poke, as if to turn attention away from himself. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It's as if speeches folk ha' made--clever and smart things as I've thought at the time--come up now my heart's welly brossen. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They're as different as they welly can be, Gerald Crich and his father--two different men, different made. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She had come abroad with the Welly Brys at the moment when fashion flees the inclemency of the New York spring. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- This particular season Mrs. Peniston would have characterized as that in which everybody felt poor except the Welly Brys and Mr. Simon Rosedale. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Typed by Ernestine