Presently
Presently I rise and crush the girl's mouth with my fist, and draw blood from her bruised nostril.
Presently I rise and crush the girl's mouth with my fist, and draw blood from her bruised nostril. (Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), The Danish History, > Book Six.)
Presently many of the courtiers greeted him with the name of king (Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), The Danish History, > Book Seven.)
Presently he asked her to be his wife (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)
Presently he asked her to be his wife, and she consented on the condition that he should always keep the cap she had given him out of her sight and teach her the song (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)
Presently, she added, the dog reappeared with a lame man playing on a fiddle; but she gave them no milk (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)
Presently they saw a little black man, or something like *a monkey, coming out of his mouth and starting on a walk round the field: they watched this little fellow walking on and on till he came to a (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)
Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX)
- attestation: Presently I rise and crush the girl's mouth with my fist, and draw blood
from her bruised nostril. (The Danish History, > Book Six.)
"Presently I rise and crush the girl's mouth with my fist, and draw blood from her bruised nostril."
- attestation: Presently many of the courtiers greeted him with the name of
king (The Danish History, > Book Seven.)
"Presently many of the courtiers greeted him with the name of king, and began to kneel and offer him their hands in mockery."
Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx
- attestation: Presently he asked her to be his wife (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)
"the subject of the humble cottage in which he lived. Presently he asked her to be his wife"
- attestation: Presently he asked her to be his wife, and she consented on the condition that he should always keep the cap she had given him out of her sight and teach her the song (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)
"Presently he asked her to be his wife, and she consented on the condition that he should always keep the cap she had given him out of her sight and teach her the song."
- attestation: Presently, she added, the dog reappeared with a lame man playing on a fiddle; but she gave them no milk (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)
"Presently, she added, the dog reappeared with a lame man playing on a fiddle; but she gave them no milk."
- relationship: Presently the young men's mother exclaimed that the devil would not let Tom leave John alone (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)
"Presently the young men's mother exclaimed that the devil would not let Tom leave John alone."
- attestation: Presently they saw a little black man, or something like *a monkey, coming out of his mouth and starting on a walk round the field: they watched this little fellow walking on and on till he came to a (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)
"Presently they saw a little black man, or something like *a monkey, coming out of his mouth and starting on a walk round the field: they watched this little fellow walking on and on till he came to a spot near a stream."