Lustily
['lʌstɪlɪ] or ['lʌstɪli]
Definition
(adv.) In a lusty or vigorous manner.
Checker: Muriel
Examples
- A red-headed man was working in the garden; and to him Mr. Pickwick called lustily, 'Hollo there! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- By my troth, said the knight, thou hast sung well and lustily, and in high praise of thine order. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But education is not a weed that will grow lustily in any soil, it is a necessary and delicate crop that may easily wilt and degenerate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Under every cloud, no matter what its nature, Ginevra, as of old, called out lustily for sympathy and aid. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Oliver cried lustily. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Here Mr Boffin was heard lustily calling at the yard gate, 'Halloa! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Instead of this the seceding States cried lustily,--Let us alone; you have no constitutional power to interfere with us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Checker: Muriel