stilly

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In between he will make short concert trips and recordings for RCA Victor, which last month released his first record: Oft in the Stilly Night and Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms.

From Time Magazine Archive

The massed bands of the 13th Infantry Brigade played the "Dead March in Saul," after which "Oft in the Stilly Night" was played by the band of the 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

From The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland by Romer, Cecil Francis

From the skipper of a Dogger Bank fishing-smack to the stoker of a Cardiff tramp, from Margate 'longshoreman to a crabber of the Stilly Isles, he embraces them all in a lusty affection.

From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

Say, Stilly, I'm off uptown to attend to the emptiness in this stone utensil.

From In the Midst of Alarms by Barr, Robert

Mr. Craig sat down to the organ and played the opening bars of the touching melody, 'Oft in the Stilly Night.'

From Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks by Connor, Ralph