costlily

Example Sentences

• "The assembly was wonderfully great; young Knights costlily armed and adorned, and Infantas who were King’s daughters, and Damsels of high degree, for whom their lovers were about to make pastime and pleasure."
• "Scarcely had these movements been accomplished, ere a costlily arrayed knight appeared before them, and by the mouth of the squire who accompanied him, demanded admission."
• "The newly arrived leader—Gonzelli—formed outwardly a complete contrast to the armed men about his brother, as well as to his brother also.—The latter was armed, and costlily."
• "[…] during an early hour on a fine summer’s morn, a stranger costlily appareled, and accompanied by two mounted domestics, galloped violently, into a frontier town."
• "Now, in this, as in every thing else, there is a medium, and I suspect that in breeding so costlily and carefully, we are overstepping the bounds of moderation, and unfitting our stock to bear the vicissitudes of climate and a medium degree of exposure, encouraging their growth by over-nursing, with a view to create a fine coat and delicacy of handling."
• "They are costlily dressed in gold and rich stuffs, their girdles richly set with jewels, on their heads are suns and other ornaments of gold wire, and on their limbs costly trappings and fringes of the kind called Dídereí, and Dehdehí; another kind used to be worn by Persian Shátirs."