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

Oft in the Stilly Night, 12:271-272       V. Fly to the Desert, 12:155-157       VI.

From The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII by Various

Stilly and continually the tiny flakes came down, hiding all the ruggedness of earth under a spotless mantle, even as the white shroud covered the toil-worn frame of the released sufferer.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 by Various

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)