charily
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House of Representatives, was its foremost parliamentarian, and had performed a considerable public service as an Appropriations Committee chairman who spent the taxpayers' money as charily as if it were his own.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over the years, actors have charily avoided filling that blank.
From Time Magazine Archive
But while Waldemar rubbed his head in cogitatation and the Honorable William Linder, in his Brooklyn headquarters, breathed charily, out of respect to his creaking rib, Average Jones was following fate northward.
From Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams
A genuine excitement was so rare in the little peaceful village that it had to be made to last, and rolled charily under the tongue like a sweet morsel.
From Pembroke A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Our fast train stops at the mouth of a tunnel, then crawls ahead charily, for the French, before retreating, dynamited the tunnel.
From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 by Various
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