seventhly, you have no right to cancel the lease in mid-year. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The good dominie's "seventhly" came to a sudden stop as the tinkle of the deacon's collection-bell fell upon the ears of the slumbering congregation. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times] Reference
Then the good dominie went back to his "seventhly," and the congregation to their slumbers, while the restless young Stephanus traced with his finger-nail upon the cover of his psalm-book the profile of his highly respected guardian, General Ten Broek, nodding solemnly in the magistrate's pew. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times] Reference
"seventhly" for two long hours father pondered over the uncertainties of earthly life, and that on this occasion he delivered the most effective sermon of his pastoral career. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales] Reference
Sunday pushing a discourse -- which was good up to the "fourthly" -- into the "seventhly.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
Investigation, or of what should be inquired first and what last; sixthly, of the Limits of Investigation, or a synopsis of all natures in the universe; seventhly, of the. From Wordnik.com. [The New Organon] Reference
With regard to Mr Jamieson he was compelled, in the end, to resort to tactics: he omitted to announce the Sunday before that his venerable neighbour would preach, and the congregation, outwitted, had no resource but to sustain the beard-wagging old gentleman through seventhly to the finish. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
Charles got very sleepy before he reached the "twenty-seventhly.". From Wordnik.com. [Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert] Reference
Sixthly, where he ascended, and seventhly, wherefore he ascended. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference
The speaker moved with stately tread through his firstly to his seventhly, and then proceeded to sum up. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers] Reference
As twice as the, complainingly ideologue be scolder with hadean static and the initial seventhly cd as setterwort. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
One breaks-down often enough in the constitutional eloquence of the admirable Pym, with his 'seventhly and lastly.'. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
I have a fifthly, sixthly, seventhly, and eighthly; for I sorely want you, as I approach the close of the tale, but I won't frighten you, so we'll take breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856] Reference
"And this brings me to fifthly and sixthly and seventhly -- my hopes, and dreams, and plans, sir -- are they all to be broken, spoiled, ruined by your hatefully selfish whims, sir -- hush, not a word!". From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Gentleman] Reference
They came that they might have the privilege to work and pray, to sit upon hard benches and listen to painful preachers as long as they would, yea, even unto thirty-seventhly, if the spirit so willed it. From Wordnik.com. [The Biglow Papers] Reference
Saracens; fourthly and fifthly, the Ottoman Turks and Venetians; sixthly, the Latin princes of Constantinople -- not to speak seventhly and eighthly of Albanian or Egyptian Ali Pashas, or ninthly, of Joseph Humes and Greek loans, is now, viz., in March, 1844, alive and kicking. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2] Reference
In which pitiable plight I have been haled out of the place of meeting, at the conclusion of the exercises, and catechised respecting Boanerges Boiler, his fifthly, his sixthly, and his seventhly, until I have regarded that reverend person in the light of a most dismal and oppressive Charade. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
In which pitiable, plight I have been haled out of the place of meeting, at the conclusion of the exercises, and catechised respecting Boanerges Boiler, his fifthly, his sixthly, and his seventhly, until I have regarded that reverend person in the light of a most dismal and oppressive Charade. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
It was the more to be regretted, as he sat in one of the "amen pews," not far from the pulpit; and if the medal might only hang outside his jacket, where it ought, Elder Lovejoy would certainly catch sight of it when he turned round, and looked through his spectacles, saying, "And now, seventhly, my dear hearers.". From Wordnik.com. [Little Grandfather] Reference
This was a very ostentatious way of reminding the clergyman how long he had preached; but if it were a hint to bring the discourse to an end, it was never heeded; for contemporary historical registers tell of most painfully long sermons, reaching up through long sub-divisions and heads to "twenty-seventhly" and "twenty-eighthly.". From Wordnik.com. [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference
Neither is seventhly. From Wordnik.com. [Eighthly, Ninthly, Tenthly...] Reference
He says these trials are conducted in nine ways: first, by the balance; secondly, by fire; thirdly, by water; fourthly, by poison; fifthly, by the Cósha, or water in which an idol has been washed; sixthly, by rice; seventhly, by boiling oil; eighthly, by red-hot iron; ninthly, by images. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
British Channel; after that, there was the turn-up with the bloody Smudge and his companions; next comes the recapture of the Crisis; sixthly, as one might say, you picked me up at sea, a runaway hermit; and now here, this very day, seventhly and lastly, are you sitting safe and sound, after carrying as regular a lubber as ever fell overboard, on your head and shoulders, down to the bottom of the Hudson, no less than three times!. From Wordnik.com. [Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"] Reference
"As thus: -- first, a shield of brawn with mustard; secondly, a boyl'd capon; thirdly, a boyl'd piece of beef; fourthly, a chine of beef rosted; fifthly, a neat's tongue rosted; sixthly, a pig rosted; seventhly chewits baked; eighthly, a goose rosted; ninthly, a swan rosted; tenthly, a turkey rosted; eleventh, a haunch of venison rosted; twelfth, a pasty of venison; thirteenth, a kid with a pudding in the belly; fourteenth, an olive pye; the fifteenth, a couple of capons; the sixteenth, a custard or dowsets.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
The Seven Secrets, as they presented themselves to me, were: First, the identity of the secret assassin of Henry Courtenay; second, the manner in which that extraordinary wound had been caused; thirdly, the secret of Ethelwynn, held by Sir Bernard; fourthly, the secret motive of Ethelwynn in remaining under the roof of the man who had discarded her in favour of her sister; fifthly, the secret of Courtenay's reappearance after burial; sixthly, the secret of the dastardly attempt on my life by those ruffians of Lisson Grove; and, seventhly, the secret of Mary. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Secrets] Reference
"sixteen full dishes, that is, dishes of meat that are of substance, and not empty, or for shew -- as thus, for example: first, a shield of brawn with mustard; secondly, a boyl'd capon; thirdly, a boyl'd piece of beef; fourthly, a chine of beef rosted; fifthly, a neat's tongue rosted; sixthly, a pig rosted; seventhly, chewets bak'd; eighthly, a goose rosted; ninthly, a swan rosted; tenthly, a turkey rosted; the eleventh, a haunch of venison rosted; the twelfth, a pasty of venison; the thirteenth, a kid with a pudding in the belly; the fourteenth, an olive-pye; the fifteenth, a couple of capons; the sixteenth, a custard or dowsets. From Wordnik.com. [For Whom Shakespeare Wrote] Reference
For first -- of women -- she must buy her husband, pay for him with all she has -- secondly, when she has bought him, she has bought a master, one to lord it over her very person -- thirdly, the danger of buying a bad one -- fourthly, that divorce is not creditable -- fifthly, that she ought to be a prophetess, and is not to know what sort of a man he is to whose house she is to go, where all is strange to her -- sixthly, that if she does not like her home, she must not leave it, nor look out for sympathising friends -- seventhly, that she must have the pains and troubles of bearing children -- eighthly, she gives up country, home, parents, friends, for one husband -- and perhaps a bad one. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
Christ's life were induced by the event to attribute such predictions to him; seventhly, letters now in our possession, written by some of the principal agents in the transaction, referring expressly to extreme labours, dangers, and sufferings, sustained by themselves and their companions; lastly, a history purporting to be written by a fellow-traveller of one of the new teachers, and, by its unsophisticated correspondency with letters of that person still extant, proving itself to be written by some one well acquainted with the subject of the narrative, which history contains accounts of travels, persecutions, and martyrdoms, answering to what the former reasons lead us to expect: when we lay together these considerations, which taken separately are, I think correctly such as I have stated them in the preceding chapters, there cannot much doubt remain upon our minds but that a number of persons at that time appeared in the world, publicly advancing an extraordinary story, and for the. From Wordnik.com. [Evidence of Christianity] Reference
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