ashily
English
Adverb
ashily (comparative more ashily, superlative most ashily)
- In an ashy way.
- 1855, Thomas Caulfield Irwin, “The Fairies’ Child” in Edward Hayes (ed.), The Ballads of Ireland, London: A. Fullarton, Volume 2, p. 113,
- The window is full of the bare blue gloom,
- And by the low hearth ashily sinking,
- Half asleep, is a fairy winking.
- 1913, Marie Belloc Lowndes, The End of Her Honeymoon, New York: Scribner, Chapter 6, p. 105,
- A low exclamation of horror escaped from Nancy Dampier’s lips. She turned ashily pale.
- 1965, John Fowles, The Magus, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 2, Chapter 49, pp. 318-319,
- A man was standing on top of the bluff, ashily silhouetted against the night sky.
- 1855, Thomas Caulfield Irwin, “The Fairies’ Child” in Edward Hayes (ed.), The Ballads of Ireland, London: A. Fullarton, Volume 2, p. 113,
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