Citations:Greekly

English citations of Greekly

Adverb: "in a Greek manner; in a way characteristic of Greeks"

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  • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Chapter 13:
    The waxen pallor of her face was almost spiritual in its ivorylike purity though her rosebud mouth was a genuine Cupid's bow, Greekly perfect.
  • 1997, Judith P. Hallett, "Female Homoeroticism and the Denial of Roman Reality in Latin Literature", in Roman Sexualities (eds. Judith P. Hallett & Marilyn B. Skinner), Princeton University Press (1997), →ISBN, page 267:
    The fourth — whom Pliny himself inspected — is called a citizen of a Greekly named town, Thysdrus, in North Africa.
  • 2006, Robert MacGregor, I Can't Take Any More Crap!, Troubadour Publishing (2007), →ISBN, page 15:
    In the interests of research into the relative qualities of beach sand in the Aegean, or that's what I told my editor, I spent a week not long ago on the Greekly gorgeous island of Skopelos, and aside from the nightly assault on my shins by starved and very bold cats at harbour-side restaurants, I loved it.
  • 2007, Colleen McCullough, The October Horse, Simon & Schuster (2007), →ISBN, page 82:
    Originally all the Delta waterways had been natural, but after the Greekly scientific Ptolemies came to rule Egypt, they connected Nilus's network of arms with thousands of canals, []
  • 2011, Robert Metcalfe, Simpson Agonistes: A History of a Crime, iUniverse (2012), →ISBN, page 19:
    They were termed agons (or, to pluralize more Greekly, agones), which word, despite the evident connection to our agony or agonize, originally had nothing to do with the duress or anguish these words now convey.