That the land of the Dane-folk none of the loathly. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
The loathly lift-flier would leave there forsooth. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
The track of the loathly: his life-sundering nowise. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Down lying there loathly; there was the fire-drake. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
There me 'gainst the loathly the body-sark mine, 550. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
The fast locked limb-sark, with fingers all loathly. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
The Earth-drake, the loathly fear, reft of his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Nay not who lives longest of that kindred the loathly. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Of fire-flame the loathly, nor long was it thenceforth. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
In the likeness of woman; and the other shap'd loathly. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
With deeds loathly, though he to him nothing was lief. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Thou knowest that toads, and snakes, and loathly worms. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
"Were you raised in privies, likely you'd be loathly, too.". From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
Since the slot of the loathly wight there they had look'd on. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
No living thing would that loathly one leave as aloft it flew. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere] Reference
Elspeth's parent, the loathly Morrison, had taught me that much. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
The tone was as loathly and as mocking as the hiss of a serpent. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon of Skulls]
Steward of King Arthur's household, 266; jeers at loathly lady, 277. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
And he turned to see gliding across the pavement a loathly serpent. From Wordnik.com. [Huon of the Horn]
"It is 'loathly,'" he says, "to sit still helplessly and be fired at.". From Wordnik.com. [Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters] Reference
Yet to withhold the effects, -- 'tis a greed more loathly than harlot's. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
The grim and loathly aspect with which the falconer had regarded Oliver. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
Yet to withhold the effects, — 'tis a greed more loathly than harlot's. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
It is then as mysterious an art as it is loathly and horrible; it needs as. From Wordnik.com. [The Defense] Reference
Half of it is Orpheus+Selkies+Thomas the Rhymer+Gawain and the loathly lady. From Wordnik.com. [NaNoWriMo 2009] Reference
Now, since thou hast dared this loathly crime, come, look thy father in the face. From Wordnik.com. [Hippolytus] Reference
No! when a husband she loathes is mated with a woman, even life is loathly to her. From Wordnik.com. [Helen] Reference
A loathly thing, close knotted ring on ring, of guise unlovely, and infectious breath. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891] Reference
Death in any shape is loathly to us poor mortals, but death by hunger is the most hideous of all. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference
And he saw, coming forth from the inner hall, the loathly serpent which Sir Arnold had spoken of. From Wordnik.com. [Huon of the Horn]
But the loathly "leperous distilment" taints and spoils, without in any way subserving "perfection," artistic or otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890] Reference
Chaucer, or the loathly lady of folklore, summarized here by Wikipedia. From Wordnik.com. [TIM BOUCHER, AUGUST 2010] Reference
And perhaps not one a day deserved death so much as that loathly fellow. From Wordnik.com. [Five Tales] Reference
The bed -- a strange and loathly thing -- stood by the empty, rusty fireplace. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn of a To-morrow] Reference
This brought a loathly fear in its train, and the gates of his heart stood ever wide to fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference
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