Their commission was executed more remissly by the Albans. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
Our lives are too short to be fruitlessly employed, or remissly passed. From Wordnik.com. [On vacation] Reference
In some they are more accurately fitted, in others more remissly or carelessly contrived, and always with a view to their being closed under a greater or a slighter force of the ventricle. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Another main fault is, that I have not revised the copy, and amended the style, which now flows remissly, as it was first conceived; but my leisure would not permit; Feci nec quod potui, nec quod volui, I confess it is neither as I would, nor as it should be. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
The accounts they brought were not unfounded; but neither the senate were so much affected by the circumstance; and Caius Sempronius, to whom the province fell by lot, relying on fortune, as if a most constant object, because he was the leader of a victorious state against one frequently vanquished, executed all his measures carelessly and remissly; so that there was more of the Roman discipline in the Volscian than in the Roman army. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
He has not "amended the style, which now flows remissly, as it was first conceived.". From Wordnik.com. [An Odd Sort of Popular Book] Reference
Cursed be he who does the Lords work remissly, cursed he who holds back his sword from blood. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
It may be seen that they exceed in contending with us, if we be compared with the Papists; against them they contend more remissly, against us more intensively. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
The generals were complained of, and as they seemed to be carrying on the siege remissly, they were removed, and others appointed, among them Camillus, who was then tribune for the second time. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives, Volume I] Reference
His sinewy proboscis did remissly lie. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
The months passed on, remissly, not given up. From Wordnik.com. [THE PRELUDE BOOK THIRD] Reference
The sceptre -- not remissly let it fall. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold] Reference
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