fastly
advEtymology From Middle English fastliche, fastly; equivalent to fast + -ly.
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- A reuerend man that graz’d his cattell ny, / Sometime a bluſterer that the ruffle knew / Of Court of Cittie, and had let go by / The ſwifteſt houres obſerued as they flew, / Towards this afflicted fancy faſtly drew: / And priuiledg’d by age deſires to know / In breefe the grounds and motiues of her wo.1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signatures K2, recto – K2, verso:
- Another time, my Mother seeing them come fastly to her house, my brother gave the key of his desk to my sister, bidding her convey the money somewhither; […]a. 1661, Isaac Tullie, A Narrative of the Siege of Carlisle, in 1644 and 1645. […], Whitehaven, Cumbria: Michael Moon’s Bookshop, published 1840 (1988 facsimile), →ISBN, page 13:
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- Rope, Cord, or Strap, in the Manage, is any of theſe tied round a Pillar to which the Horſe is faſtned when they begin to quicken and ſupple and teach him to flee from the Shambner, and not gallop faſtly or incompactly.1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “Rope”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes II (I–Z), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page 1031, column 1:
- Yes, ’tis the hand / Of death I feel press heavy on my vitals, / Slow sapping the warm current of existence. / My moments now are few—The sand of life / Ebbs fastly to its finish.a. 1807, Henry Kirke White, “Written in the Prospect of Death”, in The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, […], volume II, London: […] [F]or Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; […] by W. Wilson, published 1808, page 84:
- During these twelve days the life of the child was fastly on the wane; and all this time Emily tended him with an assiduity and tender solicitude that never flagged.1859, Kinahan Cornwallis, chapter IX, in A Panorama of the New World. […], volume I, London: T[homas] C[autley] Newby, […], page 207:
- Determined in his death, and chasing him, he ran fastly to the 'Mission House,' and under Mrs. Richardson's bed he was sheltered and saved.1885, The Missionary Herald of the Baptist Missionary Society, page 162: